Turning a disc and, in turn, being turned as well (turquoise)

Madeleine Boschan, Berlin 2015

aluminium, lacquer, LED, 36 x 46 x 5 cm, unique

For her exhibition ‘Escapement’ (with Andy Hope 1930) at the Neue Galerie Gladbeck, in 2015, Madeleine Boschan created a series of unique wall objects that echo the monumental sculptures in the main hall.

Fabricated in lacquered aluminum and mounted as reliefs, each work is backlit to produce two distinct presences: by day a precise, restrained object with clear contours and material clarity; by night a luminous, almost immaterial scene that seems to lift from the wall.

Brazilian Tropicália, Jorge Ben, Astrud Gilberto, and Oscar Niemeyer, or James Cameron's cinematic use of the L.A. River-bed, Blade Runner's electric billboards, the topic of a ruinous antiquity, and the pastel colours of 1980's Miami.

Monumental language is compressed into intimate scale. The works oscillate between object and apparition.