„Enjoying art“
Exhibition of Georg Raab and Martin Becker in Mannheim
Mannheimer Morgen, April 7th, 2001
By Ulrike Soltendiek
This time you don’t need to squeeze into the “petit noir” and can without consent leave your suit hanging at home. For the visit to Natalia Offermann’s gallery in Mannheim a new dress code applies. Georg Raab made sure of this.
Georg Raab, based in the city of Cologne, has chosen himself as a model for his photography project “Kleiderordnung” (dress code). In this ‘wall-covering’ art work he makes a dress suggestion for each day of the week and for all 24 hours of the day. Sometimes what he wears appears very proper – but during some days and hours the trousers are missing or he only wears a singlet with them. Raab’s “Leertafeln” (empty panels) display plant collages, in which ordinary indoor plants are signed with single words – these form a sentence containing the name of a displayed flower. In case of the hibiscus a pun is created using the plural form of the plant: “Hibiscuits” or maybe even “Hibiskiss”?
For his “picture descriptions” Georg Raab received the Welde art award in 1999. Renowned press photos are covered with the smallest detailed description of the actually visible, it is technical and factual and therefore filled with wit (for example the question about Prince Charles’ ears).
Exhibition of Georg Raab and Martin Becker in Mannheim
Mannheimer Morgen, April 7th, 2001
By Ulrike Soltendiek
This time you don’t need to squeeze into the “petit noir” and can without consent leave your suit hanging at home. For the visit to Natalia Offermann’s gallery in Mannheim a new dress code applies. Georg Raab made sure of this.
Georg Raab, based in the city of Cologne, has chosen himself as a model for his photography project “Kleiderordnung” (dress code). In this ‘wall-covering’ art work he makes a dress suggestion for each day of the week and for all 24 hours of the day. Sometimes what he wears appears very proper – but during some days and hours the trousers are missing or he only wears a singlet with them. Raab’s “Leertafeln” (empty panels) display plant collages, in which ordinary indoor plants are signed with single words – these form a sentence containing the name of a displayed flower. In case of the hibiscus a pun is created using the plural form of the plant: “Hibiscuits” or maybe even “Hibiskiss”?
For his “picture descriptions” Georg Raab received the Welde art award in 1999. Renowned press photos are covered with the smallest detailed description of the actually visible, it is technical and factual and therefore filled with wit (for example the question about Prince Charles’ ears).