Two tailor-made suits (each consisting of jacket and trousers) made from rescue blankets, each approx. 210 x 60 cm, Ed. 9/10, Städtische Sammlung Erlangen
Two dazzling tailored suits with overlong arms and legs tower over the viewer. Their silver and golden sheen may bring to mind parties, but also the peculiar surfaces of protective, space or insulation suits. The impression is reinforced as soon as one recognizes the material from which the suits are made - they are rescue blankets, one with the silver side and the other with the golden side facing outwards.
The Berlin conceptual artist and sculptor Fiete Stolte himself comments on his work: “The suits represent a possible cover for my absent body. Their surfaces enable reflections of the environment and reflections of my own self. They are two-sided mirrors, and as a pair they form a polarity of two extremes. One protects from the cold, the other from the heat. The long arms and trouser legs of the tailored suits go back to the original use of the material as a rescue blanket, their physical logic is subordinated by my own.”
