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Sabina Hörtner Sabina Hörtner's work focuses on the exploration of spaces in all their dimensions, with reference both to concrete spatial structure and to social, political and historical definitions. Her subject is space as a complex cultural texture, but she also considers individual, personal circumstances. Artistic intervention starts at the point of intersection between the various spatialised discourses, at the same time redefining the space. The starting-point of the installation, which functions by means of light, colour and space, are the different images cast by reflections of daylight on the walls. The fleeting sensuous images of the subtle play of the light are captured in a sequence of six drawings which concentrate components of time and space – the fourth and the third dimension – on the two-dimensional paper. These illusions are a part of the spatial concept of an architectural stage which elevates the works and the viewer, in both space and significance, so that they meet their counterpart, the sacred baroque trompe l'œil painting, at eye level, thus becoming – as in the theatrum mundi – part of the action. The artist confronts the baroque chapel and the illusionist painting with a contemporary secular construction which stands in relation to the connotations of the room and to its form and colouration, and which, in its strict reduction and symmetrical arrangement, represents a clear antithesis to the baroque painting and its visionary content, deciphering and counteracting its form and content. |
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