Renate Hampke’s Inner Tube Objects in the Cast Collection

Exhibition Opening on July 7, 2017, in Cast Collection of Ancient Sculpture. ' 191/2017 from Jul 07, 2017 Inner tube objects created by the contemporary artist Renate Hampke will be on display from July 7 to August 27, 2017, in the Cast Collection of Ancient Sculpture. "Renate Hampke seems to have an instinct for noticing insignificant and incidental things in our everyday lives and giving them a new life," says Professor Lorenz Winkler-Horacek at the Department of History and Cultural Studies, Freie Universität Berlin. In her group of works called Schlauchobjekte (inner tube objects), she created sculptural pneumatic shapes that on the one hand represent abstract figures and on the other hand, generate a charming reference to something known. The contrast between her black inner tube objects and the gleaming white of the casts of the ancient Greek and Roman sculptures produces a tension that lets both appear in a new light. "Contemporary art and ancient sculpture - present here as plaster casts - can enter into a complex alliance," explains Winkler-Horacek. The exhibition will open on July 7, 2017.