martin bonadeo | exhibitions

14 signs that propose opposing directions and meanings are situated in a storeroom full with hundreds of other art works. The signs have a size of 25 x 60 cm and are situated on the walls in a height of 2,20m. Nothing indicates that they are art work. Many people are bothered by the signs and some of the signs are removed and resituated by curators or artists whose spaces are marked by signs with "negative" words. This action is accompanied by an installation in an alcove which used to be an office. In this small place a white flag hangs from an electric cable duct which goes perpendicular up the wall. A luminous device built by the artist projects the image of the Argentine ceremonial flag on the part of the wall where the flag actually should be fluttering. But the white fabric hangs loose on the improvised mast and the patriotic colors are soaked up by the wall. If people stretch the white fabric the forms which define Argentina return to the flag.

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