TOM ELLING & NIELS LOMHOLTFORMULAR PRESSMR. KLEIN10 -24.01.1979

Niels Lomholt and Tom Elling from Denmark present the project “Mr. Klein” at Galerie S:t Petri, Lund, from January 10 to 24, 1979.

Mr. Klein, say the two creators, is the result of certain thoughts and experiences derived from the time we live in. The project reflects humanity’s march through the institutions. Life has become complicated, confused, and difficult to grasp. The economy tightens; the desire to test oneself, to experiment, diminishes. Instead, a number of additional rules have been introduced, making it easy for more institutions to emerge. It is no longer the human being who determines movements and ways of acting; the rules now govern almost all behavior.

Mr. Klein is a person placed within the total institution. The starting point of the project is a correspondence. The letters have been formalized into a form-book — our era’s organizational writing. The forms are designed in such a way that they allow only for responses considered desirable in advance. The human being herself has become irrelevant.

The vision of the project is a person’s journey through a hotel, his encounter with things and concepts, and how he relates to them. Niels Lomholt and Tom Elling have used a technique corresponding to cinematic montage. The scattered experiences are cut together into a new continuity and acquire new meaning.

Mr. Klein is no longer a human being, but the total sum of certain conditions, through which one can maneuver away from the outer world.

The exhibition is open weekdays 15:00–20:00, Saturdays and Sundays 13:00–17:00.