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Eric Schumacher
Thank-You Monoliths, 2021 Wood, concrete, steel, 130 x 35 x 265 cm
Presented by Nosbaum Reding, B05
Location
Banque de Luxembourg
14, bd Royal, L-2949 Luxembourg
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With the kind support of Banque de Luxembourg
The ‘disintegrating’ force of the street and urban context is likewise referenced through a very different approach to space in the over-sized sculptural group Thank-You Monoliths* (2021), which challenges its difficult context, set between a modernist megablock and major traffic artery. Brutal handmade blocks with a Jesmonite surface design comprising the words ‘Thank You’ embossed at various intervals stand on rusty steel I-beams, partially obstructing the awkward public space. The overblown format responds directly to the surrounding architecture, a former furniture store in the process of becoming a cultural venue called Konschthal Esch – a transformation that also informs the artwork’s reference to commercial advertising, elevating the hollow slogans of corporate gratitude to monumental status. This levelling of minimalist and capitalist cultural tropes is accentuated by an additional fountain-of-sorts: in a barely visible comic touch, water flows pathetically from a seemingly leftover sandwich bag.
Extract - Essay by Rodney LaTourelle
in: Eric Schumacher. What Condition our Condition Is In, Distanz Verlag, Berlin, 2024
Eric Schumacher (b. 1985, Luxembourg)
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