Pawel Athamer has set up a sculpture factory named Almech in The Deutsch e Guggenheim. He plans to complete at least 100 sculptures while he is there. Almech is the name of his father's plastic manufacturing plant in the Czech Republic. His father's factory is now renamed the Deutsche Guggenheim. In the Deutsch Guggenheim, a gallery a little smaller than the Crayola Gallery, he set up a plastic extrusion machine which forces out 2 1/2 inch diameter strands of plastic, just like a giant toothpaste tube. He has prepared life sized welded rebar armatures, and life masks of Deutsche Bank and museum staff volunteers. To create a sculpture he attaches a mask to an armature and drapes the hot strands on the armatures to create a figure. He says in the beginning his father's plant supported his art. He is now a well known artist, but he says now the plant is not doing so well so his art is supporting his father's plant.
This is the Deutsche Guggenheim's 17th funded site-specific art project and it continues into early 2012.
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