Gert Linke
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Marina Krems
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Gert Linke has a preoccupation with the occasional non-functioning of "the apparatus of civilisation", such as machines and cars. The half-wheel, which has come to a standstill and can no longer fulfil its function, is to be seen in this context.
The Panne (Breakdown) project arose as part of the exhibition Kunst in der Landschaft (Art in the Landscape) shown at Gut Gasteil/Prigglitz in 1992, subsequent to which it was also shown close to the marina near Bahndamm. For many years now, Gert Linke has been preoccupied with machines and cars and the periodic non-functionality of the 'apparatuses of civilisation'. The object in Krems stands as a symbol for a car breakdown, the broken half of a wheel which cannot go any further and has reached a state of standstill.
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