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Project #20: Petra Scheibe Teplitz
DavisKlemmGallery Projektraum, Kirchstraße 4, 65239 Hochheim am MainProject #20: Petra Scheibe Teplitz
MATERIAL & PRODUCTION
Petra Scheibe Teplitz's works often develop out of the material. It serves as her starting point and inspiration. She often draws on everyday materials - in this case, however, on a special found object: shooting targets for large calibers. These thin sheets of paper, usually only known from police or spy films, cover the top and bottom of the circular objects. Produced for training purposes, here they are fixed to MDF boards - finished with red paint, preserved with varnish and transformed into art. The central rod literally “hits the mark”.
THE ARTIST
Frankfurt artist Petra Scheibe Teplitz (*1953 in Isenhagen) has no interest in hunting or shooting. Instead, she works with found materials, which she removes from their original context. She adopts their aesthetics, but discards their function. Packaging, plastic bags and other disposable products thus become carriers of new meaning. Her works resemble a museum of everyday life - a place for aesthetics that would otherwise go unnoticed. Structure and repetition characterize her works as well as playfulness. Her works can be found in the collection of the Arp Museum Rolandseck and the Frauenmuseum Wiesbaden, among others.
INFLUENCE
Creating art from everyday objects remains surprising - and sometimes provocative - to this day. As early as 1913, Marcel Duchamp posed this question with his first Ready-Made: Is this art? And if so, why? A bicycle wheel on a stool can be irritating, but this is precisely what fuels the art discourse. Art becomes tangible - and artists lose their pedestal. We also encounter Petra Scheibe Teplitz's works without a pedestal, at eye level. And perhaps they not only invite us to reflect, but also to play? This also brings the Surrealists into view as an influence: They too worked with everyday objects - and with playing.
THE INSTALLATION
Like giant spinning tops or wind-blown parasols, the objects lie - or stand? - in the room. Giant children's toys? Relics of a summer at the beach? Or are they precise trajectories that aim straight for the bull's eye? The questions remain unanswered - but that is precisely what starts a flow of thoughts. Could the objects be spun further? What traces would they leave behind? And what if they end up interlocking? These mind games are dedicated to the “homo ludens” - the playful human being who reappears in summer. Perhaps, with playful freedom, questions that previously seemed unsolvable can be solved.
THE SPACE
The 20 m² room, in which pens and exercise books were previously sold, is now available to artists from the DavisKlemmGallery as a project space. Instead of regular but limited opening times, the room can be viewed at any time: A large window front makes every project visible. Changing projects, installations, works of art and artists can be discovered here. The current presentation will be on view until September 14th, 2025.
