Andrzej Steinbach. Tanz die Maschine

The artist Andrzej Steinbach, who was born in Czarnków (Poland) in 1983 and grew up in Karl-Marx-Stadt/Chemnitz, focuses on breaking down attributions, playing with questions of identity, as well as carrying and shifting meanings. Under the title Tanz die Maschine (Dance the Machine), the Museum Gunzenhauser presents an ensemble of his works consisting of new, older and temporary conceptual works, which stage selected loans from the Industrial Museum Chemnitz. In addition to the so-called Weinmännchen (little wine man), which was displayed as a neon sign at the Chemnitz Rosenhof from 1975 to 1995, historical circular knitting machines manufactured and used in the region are re-contextualised and staged as temporary works of art. In addition, the exhibition presents three photographic image series by the artist. The 14-part series Disassembling a Typewriter shows selected parts of the artist's first own mechanical typewriter. Rearranged the individual type levers are reminiscent both of herbaria in which they are preserved and of scores that set them in motion. The Auto Erotik series shows macro and close-up images of tools and building materials. Through their staging and the depiction of certain details, an erotically charged relationship seems to take place, yet at the same time they deny intimacy and elude deeper penetration. In contrast, no physical closeness is allowed in the 21-part picture series possible order, in which seven consumer goods each from the categories of bread, water, milk, dental care, fruit and vegetables, products with infantile design and products with a regional designation are put together and presented.