Herbert Warmuth — Arzneipackungen Intervention

In the organizer's words:

Inconspicuously, we encounter an ordinary medicine pack. It is somewhat hidden. What really makes it visible is the color effect it creates: a colored section of the packaging "jumps" onto the wall, reaching out into the room and transforming it. Suddenly there is a base, a piece of wall, a mark that spreads out into the architecture.

Traditionally, medicine packs are color-coded to ensure quick orientation in the medicine cabinet. We are also familiar with color coding from confusing buildings, such as parking garages.

Herbert Warmuth's "codes", however, lead nowhere, neither providing orientation nor indicating the right medicine in the drawer. Because: Warmuth is not concerned with the content, he is concerned with the form - and that is the color here. His subtle message is that this, following certain laws, continues across the wall into the room.

Three of these "interventions" can be found on the mezzanine floor: in the entrance hall, at David Novros and in the rotunda of the gallery, three more on the first floor: at Donald Judd, in the gallery of the Octagon, and in the Jugendstil stairwell. On the floor, overhead, or at eye level - always different, but it is always the color that transforms the place for us.