StattMesse
9.12.2006–3.3.2007
It is about Fulda, it is about art. On Saturday, 9 December, RED CORRIDOR Gallery invites all art lovers from 11 am to the “StattMesse” at Löherstraße 19 in Fulda. Impressive black-and-white photographs and surprising video installations are accompanied by a carpet of sound – woven partly from many sacred tones.
At the beginning of October, the artists Rudi Neuland, Joanna Skurska and Leszek Skurski opened RED CORRIDOR Gallery with over 400 square metres for painting, photography, sculpture and installations. Connoisseurs and, not least, the trade press described the extraordinary gallery as a new address for critical and contemporary art.
The pun “StattMesse” is intentional (“Messe” means both trade fair and mass). “The exhibition is a homage to Fulda,” says Rudi Neuland, “and fits well into Advent. The city space becomes a fairground that takes up religious and secular aspects – the fair as a vanity fair, as a space for reflection and as a place of veneration.” Reflection – on what? Veneration – of whom? “We want to surprise, but also to stimulate,” emphasises Leszek Skurski. “We ask questions. Questions about ourselves, about our time, our behaviour and, not least, about double standards,” adds Joanna Skurska. With its “StattMesse”, the artist group also wants to make a young audience aware of art.