Stefan Strumbel, Family Altar, 2013/14
Stefan Strumbel, Family Altar





Details
- Title: Stefan Strumbel, Family Altar, 2013/14
- Object Type: Installation
- Dating: 2013 - 2014
- Material: Metall, Laqueur, Oil paint, Wood, Glass, Textile, Opaque paint, Plastics
- Height, width, depth: 226.0 cm, 348.0 cm, 25.0 cm
- Acquisition Date: 2014
- Inventory number: 122355
- Permalink: https://www.draiflessen.com/items/128
Exhibitions

MACHT HEIMAT!
26.10.2013 – 31.05.2014
Description
The lettering “macht heimat” (make a home), bent from pink neon tubes, shines intensely in the center of the three-part winged altar—where the main devotional image would be seen in the original Christian pictorial form. With this formal analogy, the artist emphasizes the strong power (of) home, which for him is of sacred intensity. A wide variety of objects are arranged in the wings and in the gable field like votive offerings around an image of grace: objects that individual exhibition visitors have personally associated with home and which they have contributed to the artwork in line with the imperative “make a home.” Despite the great individual diversity of the objects, the unifying alienation with neon-yellow spray paint shows that they are also united by the common theme of home. In the MACHT HEIMAT! exhibition, the family altar was integrated into a room installation that looked like a chapel and atmospherically emphasized the sacred reference.