Surrogate City Bike Station

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Surrogate City Bike Station by Leopold Kessler
MOCAK, Lipowa
Kraków, September 2018

“Leopold Kessler is an artist who works in public space and whose interventions are usually some events, often filmed ones, or objects which take the form of permanent installations. One of these installations provisionally titled the dead café, can be seen in the 21er Haus museum foyer in Vienna. The object designed for the MOCAK collection belongs to the ‘in-utility convention’. It is a concrete model of a city bike station. From a distance it looks real but at a closer look it becomes obvious that what we see is a sculpture. This shock confirms our deeply-grounded conviction that all that surrounds us should be at our service.” (Outdoor Exhibits from the MOCAK Collection, MOCAK)