Klaus Weber

A monographic exhibition of work from 1991-2005 by German artist Klaus Weber, der Geist... presents a series of social, cultural and political "fountains". Shown together for the first time here, they enact and magically transform ruptures in the fabric of modern life, proposing an alternative city and alternative perspectives, corrected by LSD, sidewalk mushrooms, a car crash and carnivorous plants. Commissioned by the first Frieze Art Fair (London, UK), Public Fountain LSD Hall is a delicately beautiful multi-tiered glass fountain that trickles and splashes potentised LSD beneath a ceiling of carnivorous plants. Unfolding Cul-de-Sac, is a recreation of sorts, based on Weber's original project Brutstube on the streets of Berlin , a slab of tarmac sits on top of the gallery floor through which sidewalk mushrooms grow during the course of the exhibition. The show at Mama takes its title from an early work, itself prefiguring Weber's preoccupations: a modest enamel bucket with der Geist ist ein Wasserfall printed onto its side, containing a rock over which water flows. Other works to be shown include the video pieces Fountain Loma Dr/W 6th St, a documenta tion of a public fountain that consisted of a crashed car and a fire hydrant that appeared for one day only in downtown Los Angeles and Demo Inverse where a German police van and a humble car, equipped with loud speakers, perform a kind of choreography. (Mama Showroom, Rotterdam, http://www.showroommama.nl)