Reconstruction of a Teenage Sculpture

• Johannes Wohnseifer

Poster, offset printing
250 copies
50 x 77.5 cm
Published by cneai ​​=, Chatou and Christophe Daviet-Thery, Paris

This poster is produced as part of as part of the Reading dance exhibition, in response to the series of images by Bruno Munari Ricerca della comodità in una poltrona scomoda (In search of comfort in an uncomfortable armchair), published in 1944 in the review Domus, illustrating, with humor, the proliferation of forms of sitting and their discomfort. Here, the answer plays in the forms of skateboarding: the practice of skateboarding requires a permanent reactive improvisation of the moving body, perceiving the surface, then adapting oneself to maintain balance.

Offset printed poster 50x77,5 cm 250 copies run Published by cneai =, Chatou and Christophe Daviet-Thery, Paris Johannes Wohnseifer uses the layout of the same Munari poster with 14 images of an abandoned and partially destroyed skating ramp. This is a reconstruction of the first sculpture he made in the public space when he was sixteen but that never was documented. A part of Reading dance, in reply to 1944 Bruno Munari’s series of images titled: "Ricerca della comodità in una poltrona scomoda“ [Seeking confort in an uncomfortable chair), that is published the same year in Domus (Domus 202 / October 1944) to illustrate an article, full of humor, that he wrote about the proliferation of various forms of seats and how uncomfortable they were.