An Archive of the Archives
An artist works in the depot of the Stadtmuseum Tübingen. For weeks he explores the areas and corridors, draws selected shelves and discovers a fascinating order of the things, to which so far nobody gave attention: There is less the hoarded objects in the shelf, which captivated him, than rather their protrusions, the remains of the things thus, which could not be made quite adapted for the even beat of the shelf rows.

The drawings, made in the depot, represent the objects outside the order and form the basis for the further work in the studio. They are three-dimensional converted on large paper sheets, in each case representing a selected shelf unit. Thus becomes visible, what one did not notice in the depot: Now the object parts - one recognizes a door handle, besides, there a piece of wicker basket, here the sloping edge of an archive box -, are protruding from the even surface of the paper. They show not the disorder of the material archive, but document in ironical way similarly the mediating attempts of humans to the fractiousness of things.

The title "An Archive of the Archives" comes from Christine Heidemann and is taken from the catalogue "Depot | Herbert Stattler, Kunst im Dialog mit dem Stadtmuseum", published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name in the Stadtmuseum Tübingen, September 18 till October 4, 2009. The pictures of the drawings and paper objects were taken by Peter Neumann.