Marianne

Bettina Pousttchi’s Marianne – part of the Squeezer sculpture series – follows the basic idea behind Remagen’s Riverside Sculpture Park project: to initially perceive sculptures as something ordinary, only to identify them, on closer inspection, as works of art. This sense of confusion is further heightened by having everyday objects we know from the urban environment – in this case, the street posts used to mark and secure traffic routes – now appear as deformed groups of sculptures that seem to have fallen victim to external forces. And yet these “sculpture islands” made of
powder-coated stainless steel and set on a large, concrete playing area, ultimately reveal themselves to be vibrantly arranged works – apparently freeing themselves from their rigid state, and seeming to playfully occupy their new home and liven it up choreographically.

Bettina Pousttchi born 1971 in Mainz, lives and works in Berlin