KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin is a place for the production and presentation of discourse oriented contemporary art. Cyprien Gaillard’s installation The Recovery of Discovery allowed people to climb, drink and destroy in the company of others. Artforum also selected the exhibition amongst the “Best of 2011″. What did you miss this past spring in Berlin? 72,000 bottles of Efes Turkish beer. That’s it.
72,000 bottles of Efes Turkish beer on the wall. Or in boxes, prior to being ripped open and ideally consumed responsibly, then left alone, each in bottle strewn astray adding to the pile.
The below text is taken from Graham Jones post, New Art Installation Allows People To Climb, Destroy, Drink
“The instillation references the colonial excavation of the Pergamon Altar, a structure from antiquity which was taken from Turkey by Germans during the 19th century. Similarly, this structure is made from imported Turkish beer and presented in Berlin for Germans to both enjoy and destroy. Alcohol was thus deteriorating the participants body and minds as the pyramid suffered the same fate.”
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