Material Manipulations is the second chapter of a collection exhibition based on material as an artistic commodity. After Material Memories showed in the first chapter how material can be charged with meaning, the second chapter deals with the aesthetic quality of the materials, focusing on the artistic treatment processes and material experiments.
The exhibition shows how artists test the properties of material: techniques are re-interpreted; chance prevails in experimental processing or materials and objects are used for purposes other than those intended. This extension of existing conventions in the creation of art can also be seen as the overcoming of what is already familiar – only in this way something new can emerge.
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