Detroit, MI– Wasserman Projects, an independent, interdisciplinary arts space, will open its doors on September 25th, during Detroit Design Festival. Located in the historic Eastern Market, the new space will launch with two exhibitions featuring large-scale interactive installations by Markus Linnenbrink / Nick Gelpi and Jon Brumit. Opening reception: Friday, September 25, 6-10 pm.

Inside the main 5,000 square-foot space, Wasserman Projects will present a site-specific installation titled THEFIRSTONEISCRAZYTHESECONDONEISNUTS by German born, Brooklyn-based artist Markus Linnenbrink created in collaboration with Miami Beach architect Nick Gelpi. The exhibition combines art and architecture, integrating architect’s form-making process with the  artist’s painting techniques, to create an elaborately designed environment. This synthesis in the pavilion serves to blur boundaries and find possibilities for new experiences between art and architecture.

Visitors are invited to walk around the pavilion, peer inside through small punctures, and linger inside the object itself. Using the framework of simple architectural forms, Gelpi’s design incorporates modular variations and dynamic shifts in dialogue with Linnenbrink’s painting. The structure’s interior reveals vibrantly hued parallel strips that run across the walls, ceilings, and  floors transforming it into a 3-dimensional walk-all-over work of art.