Was ist das f\u00fcr seltene Tierart, die sich in der Kindertagesst\u00e4tte an der Ilse-Fehling-Stra\u00dfe eingenistet hat? Eingangsbereich, Haus und Garten werden von einer kleinen Schar freundlich wirkender Blubbermonster besiedelt: Sie haben allesamt Kleinkindgr\u00f6\u00dfe und sind strahlend wei\u00df. \u201eSm\u00f6rfs in Aubing\u201c nennt das M\u00fcnchner Bildhauer-Duo Julia Venske & Gregor Sp\u00e4nle ihr Kunstwerk am Bau. F\u00fcr Aubing haben die Beiden acht Prachtexemplare ihrer \u201eSm\u00f6rfs\u201c geschaffen, die es in formalen Variationen bereits an einigen anderen Orten weltweit gibt.<\/p>\n
Und obwohl es sich streng genommen um abstrakt-amorphe Formen handelt, erinnern sie an Lebewesen: Eines begr\u00fc\u00dft die Eintretenden vor der T\u00fcr, f\u00fcnf haben sich teils in den orangefarben ausgemalten Nischen des Treppenhauses, teils auf der Treppe selbst niedergelassen und zwei hocken \u2013 einander zugewandt wie bei einer imagin\u00e4ren Unterhaltung \u2013 im Sandkasten. Sie haben zwar kein Gesicht, wirken aber dennoch beseelt, wie Trolle oder Gnome. Was vor allem daran liegt, dass die Mehrzahl der rundlichen Gestalten in der Mitte eine Falte hat, die wie ein sehr breit gezogener Mund aussieht. Minimale Mittel bewirken das erstaunliche Ph\u00e4nomen der Verlebendigung.<\/p>\n
Die Skulpturen sind dabei aus so glatt poliertem Stein, dass man diesen auf den ersten Blick auch f\u00fcr Kunststoff halten k\u00f6nnte. Bei genauerer Betrachtung bildet die altert\u00fcmlich wirkende Materialit\u00e4t des Laaser Marmor einen faszinierenden Gegensatz zur Form, die eher einem zeitgen\u00f6ssischen Comic entsprungen zu sein scheint.<\/p>\n
Nur zwei der \u201eSm\u00f6rfs\u201c in den Nischen \u00fcber der Treppe schlagen ein bisschen aus ihrer Art: Der eine wirkt langgezogen wie ein \u00fcberdimensionierter Kaugummi, der andere ist schlaff, wie schlafend, in sich zusammengesunken. Durch das Spiel mit den Dimensionen und Sinn f\u00fcr skurrilen Bildwitz machen Venske & Sp\u00e4nle den Assoziationsraum weit auf. Ihre \u201eSm\u00f6rfs\u201c sind als hilfsbereite Hausgeister und Fantasie-Gef\u00e4hrten f\u00fcr die Kinder immer zur Stelle.<\/p>\n","werk_artists":[{"ID":1340,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-06-28 16:30:27","post_date_gmt":"2022-06-28 14:30:27","post_content":"Das Kunstduo Julia Venske (*1971 in Berlin) und Gregor Sp\u00e4nle (*1969 in M\u00fcnchen) ist seit 1997 nach ihrem Bildhauerdiplom 1995 in Laas Italien und der darauffolgenden Residency am RMIT in Melbourne, Australien bei Professor Robert Owen, weltweit unter anderem bei Margaret Thatcher Projects New York, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, Galerie Robert Drees, Hannover, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney, Galerie Faessler & Ochsner, Z\u00fcrich und Ana Serratosa Arte, Valencia vertreten.\r\n\r\nEinzelausstellungen (Auswahl)\r\n\r\n2018\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00dcbernahme, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, Deutschland\r\n2014\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Eclosion en Valencia, Fondo Arte, Valencia Park, Museo de Bellas Artes, Spanien\r\n2012\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Die Besucher, Museum Bad Arolsen, Kassel, Deutschland\r\n2010\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Kunstkammer No.8, Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin, Deutschland\r\n\r\nGruppenausstellungen (Auswahl)\r\n\r\n2018\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 On the edge, Aldridge Museum, Connecticut, USA\r\nLetter to Africa, Bienale Dakar, Senegal\r\n2017\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Gastr\u00e4ume, Z\u00fcrich, Schweiz\r\n2016\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Abstraction Today, Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia , Atlanta, USA\r\n2015\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Black Box, Lehmbruckmuseum , Duisburg, Deutschland\r\n2012\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Watch Your Step, Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY\r\n2011\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Glasshouse Gallery, Regional Museum, Port Macquarie, NSW, Australien\r\nBlickachsen 8, Bad Homborg, Deutschland\r\nBiomorph, Arp Museum Rolandseck, Bonn, Deutschland\r\nBodily Functions, Neuer Kunstverein, K\u00f6ln, Deutschland\r\n\r\nKunst im \u00f6ffentlichen Raum \/Kunst am Bau\r\n\r\n2017\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Autoeater\/Mangiatore in Atlanta, Midtown Alliance, Art in Public, USA\r\n2016\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nachtwaechter in Zug, Zuger Kantonalbank, Schweiz\r\n2011\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Myzot Nachtwaechter, Hot water spring park, Icheon, S\u00fcd-Korea","post_title":"Venske & Sp\u00e4nle","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"venske-spaenle","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-21 14:58:33","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-21 12:58:33","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/quivid.de\/artist\/venske-julia-und-spaenle-gregor\/","menu_order":85,"post_type":"artist","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"werk_technical_data":"","werk_technical_data_en":"8 sculptures made of smoothly polished, Lasa marble","werk_visibility":false,"werk_map":false,"werk_architect_landscape":"Teutsch Ritz Rebmann Landschaftsarchitekten, M\u00fcnchen","werk_txt_long_en":"
What kind of rare animal has settled down in the daycare center on Ilse Fehling Strasse? The entrance, the building, and the garden are occupied by a small herd of friendly looking, blubbery beasts: they are all about the size of toddlers and bright white. Sm\u00f6rfs in Aubing is the title the Munich-based team of sculptors Julia Venske and Gregor Sp\u00e4nle have given to their architectural art. The duo has created eight magnificent specimens of their Sm\u00f6rfs for Aubing (the westernmost district of Munich), which already exist in a variety of forms in some other places around the world.<\/p>\n
And even though they are, strictly speaking, abstract, amorphous forms, they are reminiscent of living creatures: one greets you at the door, five have settled in either the orange-painted niches of the stairwell or on the stairs themselves, and two are hunkered down in the sandbox, facing each other as if engaged in an imaginary conversation. Although they have no faces, they nevertheless appear animate, like trolls or gnomes\u2014mainly due to the fact that most of the rounded figures have a crease in the middle that looks like a very wide, smiling mouth. Minimal means are used to create the astonishing phenomenon of bringing something to life.<\/p>\n
The sculptures are made of smoothly polished stone, which might be mistaken for plastic at first glance. Upon closer observation, though, the ancient-looking Lasa marble is a fascinating contrast to their forms, which seem to have sprung from a contemporary comic.<\/p>\n
Only the two Sm\u00f6rfs in the niches above the staircase diverge a little bit from the rest of their kind: one is stretched out like an oversized piece of chewing gum, while the other one is limp, as if it were sleeping or sagging. By playing with the dimensions with a sense of whimsical visual humor, Venske and Sp\u00e4nle open up plenty of room for associations. As helpful familiar spirits and fantastical companions for the children, their Sm\u00f6rfs are always at hand.<\/p>\n","werk_collections":false,"werk_sort_data_artists":"Venske & Sp\u00e4nle","werk_sort_data_access":"auf Anfrage zug\u00e4nglich","werk_sort_data_year":"2018","werk_sort_data_category":"Skulptur \/ Plastik","werk_sort_data_district":"Aubing-Lochhausen-Langwied","werk_txt_context":""},"featured_image_src_1280":"https:\/\/quivid.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/quivid-muenchen-julia-venske-gregor-spaenle-smoerfs-kunst-am-bau-2018-01-1280x855.jpg","featured_image_src_768":"https:\/\/quivid.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/quivid-muenchen-julia-venske-gregor-spaenle-smoerfs-kunst-am-bau-2018-01-768x513.jpg","artists":[{"name":" Venske & Sp\u00e4nle","url":"https:\/\/quivid.de\/en\/artist\/venske-spaenle\/"}],"tax_category":"Skulptur \/ Plastik","tax_access":"auf Anfrage zug\u00e4nglich","tax_district":"Aubing-Lochhausen-Langwied","tax_year":2018,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quivid.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quivid.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quivid.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quivid.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quivid.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2650"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/quivid.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6992,"href":"https:\/\/quivid.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650\/revisions\/6992"}],"acf:attachment":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quivid.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5313"},{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quivid.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5312"},{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quivid.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5311"},{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quivid.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5310"}],"acf:post":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quivid.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist\/1340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quivid.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quivid.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quivid.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2650"},{"taxonomy":"district","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quivid.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/district?post=2650"},{"taxonomy":"access","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quivid.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/access?post=2650"},{"taxonomy":"accessibility","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quivid.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/accessibility?post=2650"},{"taxonomy":"space","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quivid.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/space?post=2650"},{"taxonomy":"year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quivid.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/year?post=2650"},{"taxonomy":"gender","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quivid.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gender?post=2650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}