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CUBE GIVES AWAY LATEST INSTALLATION – FREE TO THE FIRST 100 VISITORS!

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COLLECTION AVAILABILITY: 12am – 5pm, Monday 18th April – Tuesday 19th April

For a limited period only, CUBE is giving visitors the opportunity to own a part of their current exhibition osa/MERZEN.

The monumental installation by osa (Office for Subversive Architecture), as featured in international architecture publications AJ and Blueprint magazine ends on Saturday 16th April. The exhibition is the first time the osa, renowned for their public realm works have worked in a gallery setting, with CUBE challenging them to ‘subvert’ the gallery space in response using the collage by Schwitters, YMCA Flag Thank-you Ambleside, made by the artist whilst in exile in Cumbria.

The exhibition has proved popular with visitors commenting “Wonderful, fascinating exhibition, excellent to see what can be done with imagination and discarded materials” and “Excellent, very brave, thought provoking, thank you” (Andrew J. Holland).

A unique window of opportunity has been provided by CUBE that will allow the first 100 people who arrive to own their very own piece of an International commission.

CUBE Staff will be on hand to assist the first 100 people who visit the gallery with their selection on Monday 18th and Tuesday 19th April between 12 – 5pm.

All materials left at the end of the give away period will be recycled, reclaimed or reused.

CUBE 113-115 Portland Street Manchester M1 6DW
Tel: 0161 237 5525 fax 0161 236 5815
http://www.cube.org.uk
email info@cube.org.uk

Osa / Merzen

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Based on reflection of the work of artist Kurt Schwitters, osa is developing an accessible and tangible installation in the space of CUBE gallery in Manchester.

osa’s installation refers to Schwitters’ own collage technique which he called “Merz”, a method of rearranging collected objects such as papers, timber, wire, text snippets and paint.

The installation will transform the gallery space by using materials collected and provided by the city of Manchester, with the aim to blur the border between existing space and installation i.e. frame and content.

As with city development itself, the idea deals with the transformation process of the materials through the application within the installation as well as (the transformation) of the whole (overall system) as a reaction of addition and overwriting. This leads to a deliberate context displacement.

The installation will grow in three stages (17-19 February, 26-28 February, 25-28 March) and visitors are encouraged to become part of the development process by bringing their own collected materials of the built environment into the gallery.

Parts of the gallery space will be turned into a material store which not only acts as a collection point for the different ingredients of the installation, but also links back to the former function of the building (warehouse).

As within the contemporary pluralistic city (CPC), existing relationships will be shifted through continuous surprising and unexpected interrelations of the single elements as well as and new ones will be uncovered; without a descriptive manual.

“Merz is sensing without knowing”, Kurt Schwitters, 1920.

For more information and press images, please contact: info@cube.org.uk, 0161 237 5525.