Based artists Dan Kwon and Johannes Sturm collaborate on their exhibition at NIO Frankfurt, presented by usa, an anonymous collective based worldwide.
Titled “Pasta was invented in China”, their collaborative exhibition includes four large paintings that are made using cuttlefish ink as paint, pasta as brush, and linen as canvas. The result is a multifarious one; visually evocative of classical Eastern calligraphy as well as CIA-backed American art movement known as abstract expressionism; conceptually befogged since pasta as we know it was (not) invented in China, after all.
In 1886 the birth certificate of the automobile was issued by the Jumpman of cars: Carl Benz. It was an earth-shattering event, literally.
Now, nearly one and a half centuries later, the cycle lanes in Frankfurt am Main have only increased, widened, some even painted red in the last years; in China, too, the roads rule, and the cyclists, still respected.
In this new age where we may look up—instead into the ground—for energy, still, we may only speculate what the future unveils.
We look in the darkly rear mirror in remembrance of things past. A dark cloud underwater–unlike crude oil, which rises to the surface after taking at least 50 million years to form–the cephalopod ink was already cephalopod ink 300 million years ago. Older than the ‘Central State’, earlier than the very first noodles.