Klaus Weber

 
Born 1967 in Sigmaringen, Klaus Weber lives and works in Berlin. For anyone not used to today's postmedium condition, his constructions could be mistaken for the experiments or inventions of a scientist or engineer. The main element of many of his works is a force or species belonging to the natural world, meteorological or biological: wind, sunbeams and rainfall, as well as plants and insects. Brought into combination with industrial materials of various kinds, Weber's assemblages look as if they should be more at home on the laboratory bench than the gallery floor. Here, the natural world is made to behave as it rarely does: heavy rainfall follows a moving car on a dry day; a small tornado issues forth from an ordinary vacuum cleaner; mushrooms emerge through tarmac; a plant hangs in the air without soil; a cactus is not a single plant, but two conjoined, with a pot at either end; a vast moth appears on the equities pages of a newspaper. Some of Weber's work recalls the mermen that taxidermists made from gibbons and fish that found their way into some Victorian natural history museums at a time when the veracity of the duckbilled platypus was doubted and Darwin's Origin of the Species was shaking the intellectual foundations of the West.

(external link : www.k-weber.com)
 
Klaus Weber - Large Dark Wind Chime (Tritone Westy) - Vinyl LP
2009
Sternberg Press - Audio / video
sold out
The sound of a 4.3 meters high wind chime recorded in the dome of Secession in Vienna.
Klaus Weber - Secession
2009
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This comprehensive catalogue documents for the first time Klaus Weber's oeuvre and reveals a recurring sense of limit-experiences: accidents, organism mutations, altered states, incursions from the outside.
Klaus Weber - Kranke Fuchs (vinyl EP)
2004
Sternberg Press - Audio / video
(last copies available!)
35.00 20.00 €
An “anti-humanist” musical piece, overlaying Klaus Weber's voice and frequency ranges defined in relation to the hearing of cricket (limited edition).


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