bogdan achimescu / works / shelter - 1991-93

Shelter

The Shelter is: a portable equivalent of Noah's Ark a streamer made of low-tech materials, designed to backup the world an aesthetic reminder of the times when toilet paper was hard to get in Romania a retreat for a long tape of paper with hundreds of human and animal figures on it a TV-set for the poor, unelectrified regions of the world one thousand ways of displaying a drawing two-sided drawings, one-sided drawing one thousand various-alike faces two ways to rewind time a cartoon about me that's what it is

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There are four pieces in this series. Each of them is contained in a heavy wooden case and has two steel axes. On those axes there is a long rolled stripe of paper, 21 centimeters wide. Length of this stripe varies between 30 and 60 meters. The drawings are mostly in black ink, some are done with markers.