visual study for furnish
2025
oil on canvas, 50 x 40 cm
Veiled moment: wrapped scale
(Intervention in Everyday Spaces)
This intervention expands Inges Idee’s Furnish project. One of the benches, already distorted in scale — either too large or too small — is wrapped, intensifying its sense of strangeness.
Within the spiral, it appears not as furniture but as a silent block, a suspended scale, a suspended use,
confronting the viewer with interruption.
Scale folded into absence.
Furnish - Project by created Inges Idee
Magazinstraße 15, Berlin, DE 1995
The Art Nouveau building in Magazin Strasse near Alexanderplatz was erected in 1906 and converted into a modern office complex in 1996. The two foyers and large inner courtyard are connected by means of three independent works, forming an art axis.
Foyer 1 forms the central entrance of the office complex. A droplet-formed sculpture made of plastic hangs from the ceiling of the narrow space, referring to the immense height of the room, which measures almost nine yards. A compact bronze droplet is positioned on the floor in counterpoint, reflecting the entire space around it in its highly polished surface. Both sculptures are dynamic in flow and form a contrast to the functional architecture of the entrance area.
The closed-off inner courtyard, with its richly decorated facades, forms the center of the office complex. Here, one enters into a circle of seven garden benches of varying size. The smallest bench seems to have been built for a two year-old child, whereas the largest lays claim to a height of over 6 1/2 feet. The benches serve the purpose of resting and offer a view of the historic facades; on the other hand, through the unusual heights of the seats, the viewer is thrown back upon himself as a human being. A consistent scale of reference is missing here; only one of the seven benches is of normal size. The courtyard acquires the character of a square and becomes defined as a public space. Seen from the upper stories, the ensemble appears as a spiral-shaped sculpture
https://ingesidee.de/art-in-public-space/furnish-magazinstrasse-berlin/