Andreas Slominski's Traps at Serpentine

 The methods that Andreas Slominski adopts to involve the spectator are brutal and, at the same time, have a certain black humour. His work, scattered in no particular order on the floor of the gallery, is none other than a series traps, of every type, shape and size. Intended for panthers, marmots and partridges, as well as birds, fighting dogs or more ordinarily mice, they are objects that the German artist has been collecting since the 1980s.

Opportunely revisited and decontextualised, they also allude to the seductive nature of art. Another aspect of his work consists in staging ironic performances. Two years ago in Milan for example, the public was invited to throw their own things into the Naviglio which where fished out by a diver, and then put on show. Following exhibitions at Milan and Berlin, the Serpentine Gallery in London is the next to host his highly personal world of the absurd. E.S.

Andreas Slominski
26.4.2005 – 12.6.2005
Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens, London
http://www.serpentinegallery.org
Andreas Slominski, <i>Trap for Cats</i>, 1999. Courtesy Produzentengalerie Hamburg. © 2005 Andreas Slominski
Photo Peter Sander, Hamburg
Andreas Slominski, Trap for Cats, 1999. Courtesy Produzentengalerie Hamburg. © 2005 Andreas Slominski Photo Peter Sander, Hamburg
Andreas Slominski , <i>Trap for Birds of Prey</i>, 1999. Courtesy of the artist and Metro Pictures Gallery. © 2005 Andreas Slominski
Andreas Slominski , Trap for Birds of Prey, 1999. Courtesy of the artist and Metro Pictures Gallery. © 2005 Andreas Slominski

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