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2013

Typisch Deutsch? Series

cast bronze
table H 77 × W 215 × D 50 cm

benches H 48 × W 215 × D 26 cm
Edition of 6 + 1 AP

A bronze beer-garden table and benches evokes the social traditions of German culture while celebrating this utilitarian style of furniture.

This piece was created for the typisch deutsch? (typical German?) solo exhibition at the MAKK in Cologne, where Sachs aims to reappraise cultural labels, to question stereotypes and open a discourse on German identity in the twenty-first century. Viewers are asked to contemplate German archetypes and clichés from a different perspective, questioning the very essence of what it means to be typisch deutsch.

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