From 25 April until 17 May 2015, Kunstverein München presents Onorarono — an exhibition by Giovanni Oberti in the Schaufenster am Hofgarten.
Oberti’s primary material is time, which he locates and dislocates through subtle, repeated procedures. For Onorarono, he introduces a series of temporal registrations within a concentric vitrine.
Behind the window facing the Hofgarten, a welded iron table supports a smaller glass case containing an array of dried citrus fruits covered in thin layers of graphite. Two wine glasses rest on the case. Oberti has filled these with water, let the liquid evaporate, and continued this process repeatedly until concise measures of time (and physical transformation) emerged in striated layers of chalky calcium and limestone. Above, two date branches fused with iron rods protrude outwards from the back of the window display towards the Hofgarten. They double as a sundial, with parallel shadows winding with the sun by day, or remaining fixed at night beneath the artificial LEDs.