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Pssst: an exhibition for children

The Museum fr Moderne Kunst (Museum of Modern Art) in Frankfurt commis-

sioned two collectives of illustrators, one from Frankfurt and one from London, tocreate new artworks on a theme of secrets for an exhibition aimed at children

The show, entitled Pssst, has been curated by Jakob Hoffman in cooperation with the

Kinder Museum Frankfurt. Hoffman worked with both Frankfurt collective Labor

who work regularly with the museum, and also Anorakmagazine in the UK who put

together a group of British illustrators that have contributed to the fun kids maga-

zine.

Sixteen artists in total including Matthew Bromley, Gemma Correll, Rob Flowers,

Anke Kuhl, Supermundane, and Philip Waechter were invited to participate by cre-

ating brand new works exploring the theme of secrets. Here's a look at some of the

work in the show:
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Rob Flowers created these large prints in bright colours. Visitors are encouraged to

put on the face masks next to the prints and the coloured filters in the eye holes of the

masks allowed the wearers to see the 'hidden' images which related to the masks of

Flowers' characters Earl of Mushroom, Eyeball Shamen, and Treegar - shown below:


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"We were given an open brief to approach the secrets theme in anyway we liked,"says contributing artist Rob Lowe (aka Supermundane). "Interactive pieces were en-

couraged but it wasn't explicitly part of the brief. My work (shown above) is called

Speak Secrets / Hear Secrets. The wall is massive 4m x 8m and double sided with

tubes running through it so children can speak into them and listen on the opposite

sides. The holes don't match up so you could be hearing someone speaking from

right at the other end of the wall."

Also visible above is Gemma Correll's Monster Jaws. Children (those who dare) can
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put their hand into the many-eyed beast's mouth. Correll explains: "Kids can put their

hands in his mouth and feel what's in there (various squishy and strangely shaped

things). There's a glove incorporated with the hole so they can't peer in."


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Matthew Bromley's piece (being finished, above) explores the idea of graffiti artists

wanting to keep their identity secret. For the show he created the Pssst Crew five

fictional characters (Snoz Flapper, Goober, Bozo, Dilbert and Chump) who each paint

or paste a logo which represents something about their personality. Visitors were

challenged to match up the characters with their tags / paintings.

Bromley also created a publication (shown above) to accompany the project that can

be bought in the museum shop.
http://madebybromley.com/


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Above, Christopher Fellehner's Secret Ambassador installation allowed visitors to
http://www.laborproben.de/cf_auswahl.html


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record secrets (by pressing a button and whispering into his ear) or listen to secrets

by turning the mouth.

Zuni and Kirsten von Zubinski (who also created the image at the top of the post
http://www.vonzubinski.de/


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which was used for the show's promotional material) created a confession booth

(above) in which visitors could unload their secrets.

Psst: An Exhibition for Children runs until January 27 at Museum Fr Moderne

Kunst (MMK), Domstrasse 10, 60311 Franfurt am Main. While the show runs, installa-

tions by Matthew Bromley and Simon Peplow will also be on view at the Kinder Mu-seum Frankfurt.

For more info, visit mmk-frankfurt.de

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