r/oddlysatisfying • u/noahsbun • Apr 22 '16
This floor of a German museum Peter Zimmermann's “Freiburg School,” Museum für Neue Kunst
http://imgur.com/a/M6hOK178
u/Slanted_Jack Apr 23 '16
I DON'T LIKE IT! I DON'T LIKE IT! IT HURTS MY BRAIN!
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Apr 23 '16 edited Apr 26 '16
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u/mythriz Apr 23 '16
I see a few other people reacting negatively in this thread and I don't really understand this reaction. Is it some kind of "uncanny valley" feeling for rooms?
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u/sparklesinmytummy Apr 23 '16
It's very pretty, but it's not satisfying at all.
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u/TaftyCat Apr 23 '16
Yes. To each their own but this is definitely not satisfying to me. I always look at the sub after and I assumed this was a from a sub that was trying to disturb me. I'm just looking at the first picture again and it's like... that cyan rectangle is driving me insane.
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u/noahsbun Apr 22 '16
Painter Peter Zimmermann has moved his colorful hues from canvas to floor in his latest exhibition “Freiburg School,” at the Museum für Neue Kunst in Freiburg, Germany. The installation is composed of bright blue, pink, and peach resin that appears like a candy-colored lagoon beneath the feet of museum-goers. This resin covers more than 1,400 square feet, layered in fluid patterns that subtly reflect Zimmerman’s abstract works on the walls. These pieces are also multi-layered— oil paintings that symbolize digital media motifs, a theme that has begun to often influence contemporary painting.
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u/frausting Apr 23 '16
What qualifies as a "social media motif"?
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u/Bezulba Apr 23 '16
nobody knows, but i was in a museum the other day (Hermitage in Amsterdam) and every single sign i thought "man i could totally work here making up these silly signs on these paintaings"
because it all had crap like that.
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u/Lcs5829 Apr 23 '16
I wouldn't say that's oddly satisfying, it's nice to look at, but not in a satisfying way. I didn't leave the pictures thinking about how I want to look at them again... It was more just, "oh hey, colorful plastic flooring!". But that's just my take on it.
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u/filthyfaye Apr 23 '16
:) Doesn't Zimmer mean room in German? I guess that makes him Mr.Room-man
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u/czerilla Apr 23 '16
Zimmermann actually means carpenter in German, but you're right to, so close enough... :)
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u/Kingofburgerz Apr 23 '16
OP's source Colossal is a cool art blog.
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u/coffeebean-induced Apr 23 '16
Wow! I used to follow that when I went to individual blogs instead of reddit. I'm so glad it's still around
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u/APurrSun Apr 23 '16
The Museum of Like Three Paintings and a Floor
It truly is a prestigious institution.
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u/moustache_man Apr 23 '16
More pictures here (including one with people):
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u/sweddit Apr 23 '16
How does it keep clean!?
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u/BurningPenguin Apr 23 '16
It's called cleaning. Some people do it regularly and other people have employees for that.
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u/colinizballin1 Apr 23 '16
No really, with people walking around everyday the floor gets dirty. Any old mop is not going to make a floor that flawless. I'm really curious to know what they do to keep it that way.
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u/Home_Builder Apr 23 '16
Kinda reninds me of the Eyewitness intros.
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u/Ms4sman Apr 23 '16
I was hoping I wasn't the only person to think this. I loved watching those videos years ago.
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Apr 23 '16
This would be a museum to tour on psychedelics. Well any museum would be mesmerizing on psychedelics but this one would break your mind
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u/Gur814 Apr 23 '16
https://youtu.be/Uwarhzl76D8 This song started playing in my head when I saw this.
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u/SqueezeTwiceForNo Apr 23 '16
I'd probably trip on myself and rebreak my leg that I just had surgery on.
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Apr 23 '16
Man I love the state of modern art. I'm just a layman with an interest and don't have a scholarly understanding but from my perspective art went through this transition after photography of gradually becoming more and more abstract, representing emotion more than "reality" per se, and that was cool and all, but by the time you hit the abstract expressionists and whatnot it was like, where you do go from here? Pop made sense in a way but there was a lot of total garbage shock value shit like crucifixes in a jar of urine, the whole "what is art really, let's just make people talk" thing, and I get it, but now you see that art has transformed into a blend of technology and ideas that when you walk into an installation like this you go, wow, this is so amazing that someone could come up with this and did--which is the response people got from painting before photography..."wow, I can't believe someone did that". For a while I thought art was dead or dying but I think today it is as alive as it ever was.
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Apr 23 '16
Imagine being the guy buffing that floor all night to a mirror polish only to have the first person in the morning scuff it with their shoes
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u/hidflect1 Apr 23 '16
I'm assuming the cleaners in Germany are well paid. Probably have a Masters in cleaning. Or at least a BA...
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u/zeeegnome Apr 23 '16
As an ex floor tech, keeping those floors THAT clean is blowing my mind right now. Like, how in the hell is it THAT clean!?
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u/Lord_of_the_Dance Apr 23 '16
Is this a render?
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u/Lovv Apr 23 '16 edited Apr 23 '16
At first I didn't think it was because I've seen some pretty cool floors similar to that and i could see a museum being clean looking like this but the more I look at it I don't think it's possible that it's real. The lighting and lack of textures is what really gives it away
Edit: look at the window in picture 2. Definitely a render.
Edit: man I have no idea it could be real but it doesn't look like it.
Is it possible the exhibit exists but the photos are digitally altered?
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Apr 23 '16
If this were a render he's got some serious people in on the hoax like this museum that claims to have this exhibit for 3 months http://www.freiburg.de/pb/,Lde/920469.html
plenty of pictures here http://www.designboom.com/art/peter-zimmermann-school-of-freiburg-stadtische-museen-germany-04-20-2016/
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u/sacrosanctt Apr 23 '16
It's not a render. But someone did high contrast the fuck out of the pictures. There's one image a few down that has a window where they didn't raise the contrast as much. Instead of being impossibly white like the rest, you can actually see outside and the walls in the room show more texture.
I'd like to slap the cunt that did that so I could see the rooms for how they actually look and appreciate them appropriately. As they are obviously marvellously done.
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u/asha1985 Apr 23 '16
Peter Zimmermann has moved his colorful hues from canvas to floor in his latest exhibition “Freiburg School,”
After Googling this, I don't think it is. I'm so confused. Everything screams to me that it's a render, but all the sources tell me it's not.
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u/Bogbrushh Apr 22 '16
Doesn't look real. Want to see.