Trophyhunting
Only a fraction of all art gets the honour of being monetized and placed in a heated home or the storage of a collection.
Our first work, the monumental sculpture of a white rhinoceros covered in fragments of shotup clay pigeons, was dismantled after a single exhibition and stored for years.
It was never sold. Because of its plaster skin, the sculpture was not weatherproof and no permanent exhibition site could be found. The assembly and disassembly was very timeconsuming and it was inconceivable for us to give up 10 square meters of studio space after our studies.
Due to the high emotional value of the sculpture for us, we decided to assemble it one last time in order to ceremoniously decapitate it with a wedding saw and thus keep at least the head as a trophy and a memento.
We dismantled and disassembled the remaining body. We edited the documentation into a 2-channel video. One film shows the dismantling of the sculpture at excessive speed and with original sound. At the same time, the second monitor shows 3D scans of the sculpture being dismantled, slowly turning in circles.
We have tried to recycle everything. Materials such as wood, steel and polystyrene are very easy to reuse. The hot glue could be melted down again and cast into sticks. Plaster can be turned back into a reactive state by baking. However, the plaster and jute skin was also painted several times, and although the plaster bandages created during baking reacted and hardened, they did not work well in the studio. Unfortunately, most of it ended up in the garbage can along with some other leftovers.