Steel drawings hung on the walls of the grand staircase to the Minoritensaal.
Digital prints ‘In and out’, models for the steel drawings, were displayed in the basement. “transmedial exercises”, KULTUM, Graz 2001.

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Johannes Rauchenberger in: transmedial exercises, Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten, Graz, 2001...

Renate Kordon is known as a filmmaker and visual artist who in her work with the medium fim incorporates drawing and sometimes even sculptural interpretations. For the Minorites exhibition she mainly chose the staircase – but she neither needs darkness nor a video projector (ich relieves the curator). Instead steel figures hover on the walls, flowing lines solidified as two-dimensional sculptures, stick figures that have escaped from the film reel and are now playing with and provoking the baroque architecture.

These “Steel Drawings” were born out of the series “In and out”. The lightness of their forms corresponds with Kordon’s art, which itself, unlike its forms, is by no means light. The cosmic aspect is, of course, intentional, it seems the comic aspect too. How else can one ponder sublime subjects. Titles like “In the Beginning my Dear”, “This was Being alone…”, “Flat Entrance to the Universe” and “the human mind is infinite”, can be understood as a graphic-sculptural hymn in the tradition of the old creation songs – Psalms or “The Little Prince” (“Walking on my Spaceship”). Animation can also mean giving soul to. It can be translated as the inner life of things, delicate and astoundingly simple – and for that reason striking, nonetheless absolutely in keeping with the times. >>>