Susanne Schuricht
Belvedere, Corpus 04
Makrolon, mixed Material
2009
"The
room-corpus is accessible, you can sit or lie inside, its parts are within
reach, sliding them you can change perspectives,
create a detail, which can be shifted again in the next moment. In the
room-corpus, I’m separated from the world and especially
close to it at the same time."Belvedere, Corpus 04 is a cuboid, white,
with sliding panels on the ceiling and the sides, slightly more
than two meters and a half high and one and a half meters wide.
Here the visitors become actors and spectators at the same time. The room-corpus
invites them to stop and rest; it faces the
spectators with their environment and with themselves, with familiar and
strange things. It works as a catalyst for perception
and motivates the spectators to become active themselves. They become
aware of themselves as body - as perceiving subjects
in a dynamic interaction with their environment.
The reduced and clear form is in its simplicity an expression of deep
humility before the richness of natural forms of the surrounding.
Only by reducing the possibilities of interaction concentration can be
created. A state of awareness.
The artwork only becomes complete by the way the object is used and the
spectators get to know and enlarge their perspectives.
There are formal references to modern architecture - the angle as a reference
to Mies van der Rohe, the reduction to light and form,
the exposed volume - as well as references to the era of Renaissance like
the Rotonda. Both are integrated into a private language,
a particular attitude towards the world, something radically referring
to the present moment. (Susanne Schuricht)
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by Wolf Guenter Thiel as PDF file
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in English
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in German
Realised with technical support by Boris Hassenstein
Material-Sponsoring by Bayer Sheet Europe and puren gmbh
Evento
collaterale alla 53. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte, La Biennale
di Venezia
Photo:
Alexandra Bello
