Michalis Pichler, Edgar Orlaineta. the lost e and the e to be lost

31.07.2005 - 31.08.2005

Cuisine Digital, Wien / Österreich

In their works shown here Edgar Orlaineta (*1972, Mexico City) and Michalis Pichler (*1972, Berlin) take as starting material cultural manifestations from two societies, to whom one would hardly attest commonality today: Vienna Coffee-House-Furniture from the Brilliant epoche of AustroHungary on the one hand and contemporary Coffee Cups, Pizza Boxes and other commodities from the United States of America on the other hand.

For constructing mariposa Edgar Orlaineta took apart two Thonet-like rocket chairs....
Later he threw it into the East River, NY, and watched it disappear.

In the new york garbage flag profile (published 2005 by Revolver, Frankfurt) Michalis Pichler documented and collected discarded commodities, which carried depictions of the American Flag, from public space in NYC, and evaluated them with ethnographic and poetic criteria. [...]

[Source: http://www.mqw.at/]