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Yarisal Kublitz .:. Works 03-08

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[Yarisal, Ronnie, Kublutz, Katja]Yarisal Kublitz. Works 03-08. Wiesbaden [2008].
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[Yarisal, Ronnie, Kublutz, Katja]
Yarisal Kublitz. Works 03-08. Wiesbaden: Nassauischer Kunstverein, [2008]. ca. 40 pages with illustrations. Paperback / 4to. 170 g
* Publication in conjunction with the exhibition from April 27 to June 8 2008 in the Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden.
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Yarisal Kublitz | Kunstausstellung | Ausstellungskatalog | Exhibition Catalogue | Installationskunst | Installation Art

Other than the songs that titles their works, perhaps one of the first things you might ask when confronted with the work of Ronnie Yarisal and Katja Kublitz is... 'what's with the chairs?' We know it relates to the domestic, and that they like to use other objects like tables, drain suckers and plant pots that are also found in the home, and that they are a couple. However, their work isn't about women's suffrage or the tedium of chores, regardless of your sex. Instead, these seemingly cosy domestic materials, and the scenarios in which Yarisal & Kublitz have placed them are metaphors for the suffocating contract of which we have little choice than to adhere. [...]

Tension is a feeling that feels very apparent in the work or Yarisal & Kublitz. It's a tension between an ideal and the real. There is an old aphorism that goes 'under 30 not a liberal no heart, over 30 still a liberal, no brain.' But the idealism of Yarisal & Kublitz's youth - both are in their late 20s - transcends age; in fact it probably resonates better with experience. Routines lead us to forget, and it takes the idealism of youth to remind us of the fact we and the world exist along lines predetermined to our appearance and that it DOESN'T HAVE TO BE THIS WAY. Whether it's a rollercoaster style ride on a springy chair or Katja sitting very close to a stranger on a park bench their works make us question our surroundings. Is the city really so mean that an attractive young woman sitting close to you on a bench is offensive? In the creation of their work they have come across these jarring barriers of reality. The fact that to make This is What It All Comes Down To, Ronnie had to drive to West Berlin to freeze a block of ice with a red ball in its centre and then back to Central Berlin every three days and install it with his own hands was a act of determination and organisation, a performance that quite succinctly encapsulates Yarisal & Kublitz's oeuvre. The Buster Keaton style slapstick humour that runs through their work, functions both as an escape from these routines and a mechanism to illuminate a previously neglected truth. The seemingly absurd situations their materials are placed in enact stories that begin with expectation, surprise and result in, as Katja would say, 'a dying anti-climax.'

So how do we get some satisfaction from this Sisyphean frustration? Simply slot a quarter into the Anger Release Machine and rejoice in that stupid Maneki Neko porcelain doll that waves gormlessly at us at from every street corner across the world crash mercilessly to the ground. Revenge is sweet. There is no room for chintz in the Yarisal Kublitz household. In fact, with all the domestic materials on show, what would a Yarisal & Kublitz home be like? Is this the ultimate gezumpkunstwerke, and would you dare ring its bell?

Xerxes Cook
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