{"id":21307,"date":"2026-02-25T15:57:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T15:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maiamuller.com\/?post_type=exposition&#038;p=21307"},"modified":"2026-03-13T13:57:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T13:57:17","slug":"fritz-bornstuck-5","status":"publish","type":"exposition","link":"https:\/\/www.maiamuller.com\/en\/exposition\/fritz-bornstuck-5\/","title":{"rendered":"J.W.D"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The objects used in Fritz Bornst\u00fcck's still lifes gain new life as the artist reuses and recycles the debris of popular culture in a practice he describes as cultural recycling. Bornst\u00fcck (b. 1982) is a scavenger, pulling materials from wide and varied sources \u2013 such as film noir, found footage, his immediate surrounding or even private trash \u2013 and puts the contents of his ongoing collection in formal discussions to produce dynamic aesthetic friction. The used materials communicate the artist's creative context in translation, appropriating their sources and reinterpreting them to\nproduce an associative space for the viewer.\nTraces remain as the landscapes and places, which are depicted, are\nabandoned. Silence, Light, Reflections, stories and history are calling to be\nunraveled.\nThe objects star in these scenes, like a grotesque cabaret; they are\nanimated in the way they lie, stand, lean, bend towards each other and\ntheir surroundings. The instability of the environments created and the\nseemingly careless nature of the compositions that hold these painted\nworlds together, tell something beyond the bare depiction. But what, is\nnot definite. Instead the works are somewhat ambiguous. They may call\nfor a compassionate gaze, trigger the viewer's humour, or simply tap in to\nthe perverse joy of voyeurism.\nEven though they are built from banal everyday items, Fritz Bornst\u00fcck's\nstill lifes hold secrets: big ones, little ones, weird ones. Their manifestations\nare riddles that feed the imagination of the viewer while refusing to give\naway any answers. Instead the narrative is left open to interpretation.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":21308,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-21307","exposition","type-exposition","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-passees"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maiamuller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exposition\/21307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maiamuller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exposition"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maiamuller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/exposition"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maiamuller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maiamuller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maiamuller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}