Calla Henkel / Max Pitegoff

A device central to the exhibition, the original Times Bar designed by Calla Henkel and Max Pitegoff becomes the fulcrum of a new form of aggregation and sociality in the exhibition space. The legendary venue opened by the two artists with Lindsay Lawson in Berlin in 2011 is reactivated in this new context, through the re-offering of some of the key elements from the original venue (counter, objects and furnishings, receipts, menus, stools, the vase of flowers), but above all of socializing as its main feature. The place where a large scene of artists used to meet every weekend is thus evoked to express a sense of community, of collectivity, of movement based on the sharing of time, experiences, imagination and living spaces. The simple structure, characterized by the bare geometry of the white tiles, takes on at once the function of an installation device, an element for the articulation of the space, a backdrop, a performative scenario, catalyzing the energies and shared memories of a place in which the different conversational lines of the exhibition move.