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until 02.11. | #4417ARTatBerlin | Taubert Contemporary shows from 13. September 2024 the exhibition Daily bread by the artist Axel Lieber.
Who hasn’t kneaded the insides of fresh bread rolls into balls or small creatures and then eaten these shapes, amazed at the altered flavour of the crumb caused by the compaction. Axel Lieber has hollowed out four loaves of bread and four rolls to transform this “Daily Bread” (1995/2024) into the rustic pantines of a family.
MKA (240717), 2024, cardboard, wood, steel | 48 x 236 x 42 cm | 19 x 92 x 16 in | 1.6 x 7.7 x 1.4 ft
Axel Lieber twists and turns the drawers, stacks them to form a tower, installs picture frames as windows – and the result is a structure that you immediately want to move into: a model for contemporary “private architecture” (the title of the series of works).
The building “Light in the Attic” (2022), which is part of this series, opens up perspectives in all directions, with a bright tower room as a place of longing, elevated like a living machine by Le Corbusier. However, the interior of the tower is a single bright space, a shaft in which a plumb line runs along an axis.
Wasserfarben (Watercolors), 2024, world map, various papers, glue | 114 x 188 cm | 45 x 74 in | 3.7 x 6.2 ft
A scaffold unfolds on the wall like a panorama, which is part of the “My Constructive Everyday Life” series of works. Axel Lieber has reduced packaging boxes and medicine cartons to their edges and uses their modular structure to create a “House of Pain and Colour” (2024).
The exhibition opens with a spatial drawing consisting of braces, belts and pearl necklaces. A cheerful “group dy-namics” (1999-2024) develops in the interaction of the disembodied lineament with our bodies, which is tensed in space and spans us.
About Axel Lieber
Axel Lieber, *1960 in Düsseldorf, Germany. He lives and works in Berlin, Germany and Stockholm, Sweden
Text: Nike Bätzner
Opening: Friday, 13. September 2024, 6.9 pm.
Exhibition dates: Friday, 13. September– Saturday, 02. November 2024
Opening hours Berlin Art Week: Wednesday until Sunday: 11 am – 6 pm; Friday: 11 am – 9 pm
To the gallery
Title image caption: Täglich Brot (daily bread), 1995/2024, bread | various dimensions, photo: Fabio Mantegna, Italy
Exhibition Axel Lieber– Taubert Contemporary | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
