Fabian Stech

From Michael Sailstorfer I have seen a sculpture in front of the MARTHA Museum in Herford. It is a big helicopter on a pedestal. Remarkable is the mixture of something funny and helplessly superfluous. Exposed in the MADE IN GERMANY exhibition in Hannover the sculpture “Time is not a freeway” (2005), a big wheel using itself against the wall, was even more superfluous but in its uselessness it is more convincing. This work was not really new but already shown all over the world. In Micheal Sailstorfers show 10000 stones at Frankfurt’s SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE it is exposed again until the 17^th of august. But you have to ask the guardian to make the wheel turn. At the entrance an old popcorn machine is also not running, although the first impression is that, it is the production of popcorn, that is the interesting point of sculpture. It makes you think of Felix Gonzalez-Torres, candy corners produced in the early 90ties. But here, even if there is a super 16 mm film in a loop, like in a movie theatre, nobody eats the popcorn- it’s not fresh enough.. The film installation shows an explosion inside a barrack made of corrugated iron sheets. But you do not see how the barrack explodes. These parts of the film are cut of. Instead the building seems to breathe – inhale and exhale – inhale and exhale. The two other works a neon billboard outside the museum and the bus shelters inside are simply insignificant.