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August 29, 2012

Peter Geschwind (& the back alleys of consumption)

Peter Geschwind makes sculptures and installations that often employ packages. Not always as inanimate objects. (Above: his 2002 film “Sound Cut”)


Above left: a modified Camel cigarettes box; on right “Candyman”; lower left: “Cheap High” an installation of inflated bogs; on right: “Moving Trash” a 2010 sculpture of McDonalds bag with papers and a battery-driven toy

“A few of Geschwind´s sculptures can be taken to be crazy toys — a misconception that is quickly corrected when the works are shown together. …about as fun and relaxing as hysterically zapping between ten of our most common cable channels. … From such a hallucinatory kaleidoscope a few well-known labels are crystallised… A series of flashbacks from the shadiest, murkiest back alleys of consumption society, where the product mongers fight over our attention in order to sell a whole load of things that we can find in our nearest dustbin.”

Peter Geschwind´s Phantasmagoria, Lars-Erik Hjertström Lappalainen

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