Vincenzo Fiore Marrese

Der Weg der Kohle

Abstract

The concept of this work is the possibilities to shape social changes. The topic is related to the idea to imagine a network of former power plants that become museums of art that can create an innovative art platform rethinking the social function of a museum of art today. In the Museum Kesselhaus Herzberge, as a former power plant that provided energy as heat and electricity, you can see in the boiler room a didactic panel as a schematic representation that shows the use of fossil fuel. Everyone knows that fossil fuel phase-out is a big challenge. What if during this transition, we start an art phase-in through a network of a new type of art museums from the former power plants? On the floor of the boiler room there is a trap door. According to the narrative topos of the magic door that brings us to a new world, this trap door will be the place where the artwork will drive our imagination to this option.