Steeldrawings | Stahlzeichnungen
7 mm steel wire, bent and welded, 2001
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| What actually only becomes visible in the mind—the line as a border, the line as a decision—is substantiated here, frozen to steel, the pencil line becomes a steel wire object, a steel drawing. Brigitte Servatius in: From the Right Side, THE PiMuEpsilon Journal, WPI... What looks like a pencil drawing is actually a steel sculpture. What looks three dimensional, is actually flat. One enters a space through its boundary and the boundary is of lower dimension than the space. Renate Kordon, Viennese artist and architect, calls her steel sculpture flat entrance to the universe. By making the flat object three dimensional, she hints that the universe may well be of higher dimension than our three dimensional reality. Giving the entrance a spiral shape is a warning that we might get lost in the entrance, and never be able to enter, if we cling to our one-dimensional routine. Johannes Rauchenberger, in: transmedial exercises, 2001... Renate Kordon is known as a filmmaker and as a visual artist who works with the medium of film in a graphic, sometimes even sculptural way. Her artistic talent makes her at home in the virtual world (despite the fact that she has created some well-known site specific art). She is known well beyond Austria's borders as an animation filmmaker. For the Kultum exhibition, she primarily chose the staircase - however, we need neither darkening nor a video projector (which relieves the curator). Steel figures hover on the walls, flowing lines solidified as two-dimensional sculptures, stick figures that have escaped 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 association with the cosmic is of course intended, and perhaps with the comic too. How else can one ponder sublime subjects. Thus the accompanying story begins: "In the beginning, my dear..." The spirals are a "flat entrance to the universe" and, spiral on figures head: "the human mind is infinite"... A graphic-sculptural hymn of praise in the tradition of the old creation songs, if you will. Psalm 8 or the Little Prince, "walking on my space ship". This is why the ceiling painting in this room also corresponds to the apotheosis of St. Francis. Their spatial illusion and painterly exaggeration find an appropriate counterpart in these large "steel drawings". Even if they are made of thick wire, they seem to be what characterises the artist's films: animated. Animation, as Diane Shooman has rightly said about Renate Kordon, can be translated as enlivening. As the inner life of things, delicate and astonishingly simple - and therefore haunting, but in tune with the time. Animation 2006: Dancing Sculptures and Helpful Thought / Hilfreicher Gedanke
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