post_modellismus – models in art - krinzinger projekte - Galerie ...

Christoph Raitmayr
Untitled, 2005
Cardboard, hardboard, lacquer, 39 x 160 x 94 cm
Something is a bit uncanny. That’s how it begins. But at the same time one has to
look further, to that which is closer. - Ernst Bloch, Philosophische Ansicht des
Detektivromans (Philosophical View of a Detective Novel), in Der Kriminalroman.
Poetik. Theorie. Geschichte, ed. Jochen Vogt (UTB, 1998).
… its use over centuries has invariably led to the best of all forms … in the most
economic and stable shape: once this state has been reached, everyone copies it,
and millions of these repeated forms responds retroactively as it were to the myriad
experiments, concealing them. - Paul Valéry, Eupalinos or The Architect.
»The work shows an architectural model of Gerrit Rietveld, together with a group of
chairs. The furniture is supposed to stand in for a possible interior. The positioning
of the house on the table of the group of chairs has an irritating effect, building up
a certain tension. Two levels emerge, which do not define any really clear entity.«
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