Mammon and Divan

Maya Bringolf from Basel and Marco Schuler from Munich studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in the 1990s and recently met again in Zurich. In their first joint exhibition, the site-specific installation “Mammon and Divan”, they look for overlaps and similarities in their art.
Maya Bringolf’s sculptures made from found furniture, enamel paint, glass, steel and DIY store materials behave like the furniture of a haunted house in the atmosphere of the message salon. A giant eye stares out of a red plush armchair, next to which fragmented, frayed remnants of cosy living room comfort grow criss-crossing the exhibition space. Familiarity and bourgeois contentment slide into psychedelic obliqueness. In a video series, Marco Schuler struggles with sculpture and space in slapstick-like self-experiments. The artist runs up against the resistance of his creations and his own inadequacy.
Marco Schuler installs an oversized, idol-like figure on the terrace of Perla Mode. The black phantom made of bone glue, canvas and tar, the same material used to make the first suitable flying objects, watches stoically and menacingly over Langstrasse, day and night, with outstretched wings like the shadow of a military jet.