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Wentrup Gallery, Berlin will be showcasing works by Peles Empire as part of the “Feature” section at Art Basel 2017 from June 15 through June 18, 2017.
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The fifth edition of the once-a-decade Münster Sculpture Projects, taking place in the north German town of Münster from June 10 to October 1, has released its participating artists list.
Read MoreThe roving, collaborative project Peles Empire was conceived by artists Barbara Wolff and Katharina Stoever while studying at the Städelschule in Frankfurt. Their artwork and project spaces are set on the backdrop of the Neo-Renaissance Peleș Castle—a grand palace in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania—which the artists have copied, dislocated, and recreated. In their work, printed images of various rooms and elements from the castle are applied to walls, sculptures, and other surfaces, creating a context for what philosopher Jean Baudrillard called Simulacra and Simulation. Peles Empire’s project spaces in London, Cluj, and the latest in Berlin, are lined with reproduced elements of the castle, which other artists are invited to engage with and respond to.
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Beguiled by graphic design, and its task of economically translating personal experience, Nicholas Hatfull forcefully repurposes it. In the London-based
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Peles Empire is a collaborative work by Katharina Stoever and Barbara Wolff. The project borrows its name from the Romanian castle Peles, built between 1893 and 1913. The rooms of the castle copy different architectural styles of the past centuries, combining for example Art Deco, Orientalism, Renaissance and Rococo. The creators of this castle opposed any current design trend by establishing an almost ironic representation of the “ideal” castle.
Stoever and Wolff have reproduced ten rooms of the castle since 2005. The project has existed in Frankfurt, Los Angeles and London and has organized over 30 exhibitions within these spaces.
Peles Empire is currently running two mirroring spaces, where invited artists show their work. Stoever and Wolff are also working on the 3D interpretation of the 2D reproduction of the castle and 2D transformations of 3D objects within the reproduced imagery.
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