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Felicitas Wetzel

Fontana Adria
fountain
2008

steel waste-bin, disposal bag 30l, pump, 20l of water
h 64 x d 30 cm
edition of 10

With the indoor water fountain Fontana Adria, Felicitas Wetzel cultivates a rather sober if not downright fatalistic view of the supposed azure paradise. For many of us, the Mediterranean coastal landscape is certainly still the epitome of summer holiday dreams, but far too often, reports on construction sites, mass tourism, and overbooking cast a cloud over this fiction. Thank God, the situation is not yet entirely downn the drain, as this rather smugly critical object also shows. If you use appropriate (environmentally) friendly technologies correctly, the water always bubbles clear and clean — which is, after all, exactly what matters.

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