Art with plungers: Artist Max Erl exhibits his somewhat different work in Regensburg

Created: 03/15/2022, 17:53

The artist Max Erl is exhibiting his "Pömpel" installation in Regensburg.

© City of Regensburg, Department of Culture, Ellen Reichel

In the “nine cubic meter” Max Erl presents his art installation “Pömpel”: The protagonists are – as the name suggests – drain cleaners.

Regensburg – The city’s cultural office has rented the showcase (number 4) in the Pustetpassage until the end of December 2022: the “nine cubic meters” space for art, culture and ideas is now entering the next round.

Max Erl presents his work Pömpel.

The installation with an arrangement of suction cups plays with the common concept of art.

The work can still be seen in the Pustetpassage up to and including Friday (April 1), as announced by the city of Regensburg.

Regensburg: "Pömpel" should enable a change of perspective

Around 70 drain cleaners were used for "Pömpel".

Everyone who walks by looks at the underside of the plungers - at first a change of perspective that you don't see in this way.

"The strictly serial repetition increases the process of alienation, and the objects become an art object in their entirety," writes the city about the temporary work of art.

Coincidence plays a major role in “Pömpel”.

Because over time, isolated drain cleaners will probably fall down from the shop window and "open up the space of the 'nine cubic meters' again".

The installation should thus identify categories of the in-between and play with presentation strategies of commodity aesthetics by bringing together everyday objects.

Regensburg: This is the artist Max Erl

Max Erl is a teacher and freelance artist and has had a studio in the Alte Mälzerei in Regensburg since 2018.

His passion: he combines objects with modern materials and everyday objects.

His goal: to link things in such a way that new levels of interpretation open up, which should sometimes make the viewer humorous and sometimes thoughtful.

Max Erl's works have already been shown at the Neuer Kunstverein or at the “95.

Annual Show of Upper Palatinate and Lower Bavarian Artists and Craftsmen 2021".

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