CHRISTIAN ROTHMALER and FLORIAN MAHRO
"KOOL 'KOKKO" (January, 17th until February, 5th 2010)

Please click here to view images from the exhibition "OKOOKOKO POLYGON"
(May, 18th - June, 15th 2008)

The human being, his behaviour, his perceptive and his feelings are decidedly influenced by spaces and rooms. Rooms, more then any other material good, have the ability to communicate.
Their communcation can be provocant, edifying, intimidating, neutral, but it could never be without one.
If a room is able to communicate with his environment, then it is a highly demanding aim by an artist to react on this communication.
For Christian Rothmaler and Florian Mahro rooms are the starting point to their artistic reflexion.
They see their duty in the clarification of rooms and in this process the borders between the generic terms disapear, a kind of hybrid appears, and the intersection between architectures and sculpture is becoming unclear. Thus poetic metastructure is built up, which aims to a new perceptive on the spectator. This creation of new visions of the room is (in another step) the starting point to create a picture of this utopia.

 

Florian Mahro

born 1979 in Bremen/Germany
Since 2001 he studies art at HfbK Hamburg
at Professor Stefan Dillemuth, Stefan Kern, Peter Piller, Thomas Scheibitz and Hendrik Krawen

Exhibitions

2004 Brandshof Festiv, Hamburg

2005 Zusammenhängen (Sticking together), Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg/Germany

2006 Index, Kunsthaus Hamburg
---------Gurken Okookoko (Cucumber Okookoko), Oelsener Pavillion, Hamburg
---------Johnny Okookoko Cash, Galerie auf der Empore, Konstanz

2007 ohne Titel (no title), Gallery HfbK, Hamburg
---------Turbo Okookoko, Clementine Clayonnage, Hamburg
---------Das schöne Geld (beautiful money), Ausstellungsraum, Hamburg

2008 Okookoko, WCW-Gallery, Hamburg
---------Okookoko Hyper Polygon, Clementine Clayonnage Compact, Hamburg
---------MoFA, Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, Hamburg

2009 builder vor boatin, Silvershed, New York