2014

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Förderzentrum und Mittelschule - Innsbrucker Ring 75, 81673 München

Holz, Lack, Glas, Scharniere: Edelstahl, Kunststoff

Architecture: Felix Schürmann Ellen Dettinger Architekten, München

Photos: Wilfried Petzi

Text: Matthias Supé

The further away you go from the display case wall, the greater the “aha” experience. That is when Kinn Louis reveals its glorious illusion of space. What looks like a rainbow-colored assortment of oddly shaped mini-lockers when seen from up close instead turns into a three-dimensional space whose walls and floor are made of rectangular lockers. And even though the illusion is fully realized, it had already dissolved before it was made—because it was obvious from the start that this is not a “real” space. Especially captivating: the visual trompe l’oeil and reality fluctuate in a balanced manner. Here, Oliver Westerbarkey is not concerned about showy effects but with the exploration of space itself. The imaginary spaces people create—in both a literal and a metaphorical sense—are what motivate him to something new in his works of art. Kinn Louis is an anagram of the German word Inklusion (“inclusion”), which the sculptor deliberately used (due to its self-confident sound) to conceive a display for the children at the middle and special ed school. In its transparent display cases, different objects on different themes that affect the school’s community can be exhibited. Including the students’ exhibits allows the special ed and middle-schoolers to participate equally in the display wall and hence, in school life, while also enabling individual self-assertion, communication, and cooperation. Rarely has the term “inclusion” so sensibly gotten to the heart of the matter.