Kolaboracijski duo vizualnih umjetnika Elmgreen & Dragset autori su skulpture Powerless Structures,

Fig. 101, zlatne instalacije djeaka na konjidu-ljuljaki, koja de biti postavljena na Trafalgar Squareu u
olimpijskoj 2012. godini. Radi se o dvojcu skandinavskih umjetnika, Dancu Michaelu Elmgreenu i
Norveaninu Ingaru Dragsetu. Umjetniki dvojac ivi i radi u Berlinu, a njihov rad karakterizira
domiljat i subverzivan humor s neizbjenim primjesama kritike drutva.
Prada Marfa je jedinstvena instalacija umjetnika Elmgreen i Dragset dizajnirana s idejom da podsjeda
na stvarnu Pradinu prodavaonicu. Predstavljena 2005. godine, skulptura 2,3 km udaljena od gradida
Valentine u Texasu prikazuje komade iz kolekcije za jesen / zimu 2005. odabrane od strane Miuccie
Prade.

Iako je stajala 80 000 amerikih dolara, ideja popravka nikada nije planirana s nadom kako de se s
vremenom potpuno stopiti s prirodnim okruenjem. Naalost nekoliko dana nakon predstavljanja,
instalacija je unitena, sadraj ukraden, a rijei Glupo i Dum Dum su ispisane na zidu. Instalacija je
brzo popravljena i upotpunjena novim torbama bez dna te opremljena sigurnosnim sustavom.

Prada Marfa je u kratkom periodu postala kultna opskurna umjetnika atrakcija za turiste sa
stotinama posjetitelja koji ostavljaju posjetnice ispod malih kamenida uz rub stijene koja se protee
oko temelja zgrade. At the invitation of the City of Munich, the Scandinavian artist duo Elmgreen &
Dragset are curating a wide-ranging temporary art project to take place in the centre of Munich
between January and September 2013. The project, titled A Space Called Public / Hoffentlich
ffentlich presents diverse works by twelve artists from different countries with the aim of
generating a new conversation about the concept of public space today.

Elmgreen & Dragset decided to develop the project in various phases in Munichs city centre. Its
open structure is designed to take place over many months, creating space for curiosity, discovery
and, as in its German title, hoffentlich (hopefully) the establishment of a burgeoning dialogue
with the public as the individual artistic strands evolve together.

A Space Called Public / Hoffentlich ffentlich will be launched on January 29 with 4th Plinth Munich
by Stephen Hall and Li Li Ren, bringing the well known London contemporary art commission to
Munich. The project involves the building of a full scale replica of the Trafalgar Square Fourth Plinth
in the historic square of Wittelsbacherplatz, adjacent to an existing bronze statue of elector
Maximilian I on a horse.

The idea is to create a problem in the form of an empty plinth which generates questions. To disturb
the historic order with this intervention will help us to see this space with new eyes, says Stephen
Hall, who in 2011 made the first travelling 4th Plinth, a work called A Tale of Two Cities, in
Bermondsey, South London. Since the mid-90s Stephen Hall (b. 1968, Dublin; lives and works in
London) has worked extensively in a devised and collaborative format with various minority social
groups exploring the uses and misuses of public space in an urban context. In 2008 Hall founded the
experimental art space Cul De Sac London. Stephen Hall & Li Li Ren (b. 1986, Shandong, China; lives
and works in London) are an artistic, design and curatorial duo formed in 2012 in London.

Like its famous original in England, 4th Plinth Munich will include an invitation to eight international
artists to submit works for a new sculpture. Proposals will be reviewed anonymously by a
distinguished jury and the winner will be announced on March 12, 2013. The production and
installation of the new work will be completed by June 6, 2013, the opening of A Space Called Public /
Hoffentlich ffentlich.

The opening celebration will take place when all projects are on view and continues as a summer
exhibition, presenting works by Ivan Argote, Han Chong, Funda, Martin Kippenberger, Ragnar
Kjartansson, Henrik Olesen, Kirsten Pieroth, Ed Ruscha, David Shrigley, Tatiana Trouv, Peter Weibel
and Elmgreen & Dragset a.o. Collaborations with Munich-based institutions and artists will include,
among others, projects by students of the Academy of Fine Arts.

Alongside the summer exhibition A Space Called Public / Hoffentlich ffentlich, which will feature
performative, interactive, idea- and sound-based projects and other non-monumental statements,
will be a series of public events and talks, hosted by the centrally located City Hall Gallery and other
venues in Munich.

The closing event of A Space Called Public at the end of September will include the presentation of an
extensive catalogue serving to document and localize current debate over public space and art in the
public sphere.

A Space Called Public / Hoffentlich ffentlich by Elmgreen & Dragset is an artistic project in public
space funded by the City of Munich. Migros and Museion: both museums have works in their
collections that engage with some of the key movements and themes of the art of the last century.
The sacrality of these movements is however undermined by the remix effect, appropriating and
recombining the art languages of the past. Minimalism and Functionalism, Pop Art and Conceptual
Art are all part of the vocabulary of many of the featured artists, whose works lend these movements
new meanings and remix them with the utmost freedom.
One work which exemplifies this approach is the video Drama Queens (2007) by the artistic duo
Elmgreen & Dragset, from the Migros collection, that opens the exhibition on the second floor of
Museion. The stage in this theatrical piece plays host to some of the most significant sculptures of
the last century, from Alberto Giacomettis Walking Man to the works of Jeff Koons, Barbara
Hepworth, Andy Warhol. In the piece the superstars of modern sculpture reflect ironically on
aesthetic concepts from formalism and minimalism to pop art. Elmgreen & Dragsets drama reveals
the impossibility of tracing a linear progression of art history and how people experience art, and
challenges the white cube as a neutral museum space, prioritising the individual, emotive dimension
of artists and spectators.