SPHÄREN

Three spheres that visitors can walk into, open up in the inner courtyard of the Graz Museum Schlossberg. They are huge three-dimensional spheres defined by blurred but still legible texts. The glowing lines circle around invisible centres, and the spheres float up and down. Each of the spheres has its own thematic focus. The first displays texts by Styrian writer Rosa Pock, who writes about writing and the versatility of hands, and also about how hands ‘already touch what lies beyond,’ and thus narratively expand space. The second sphere quotes Ludwig Wittgenstein, who dealt with perception by using images, description, and language. The third sphere tells of space and spatiality, room for action and infinity. The ‘Iony’ app is required to view the digital artwork.

A projection on the fortress wall ties these augmented reality sculptures together in the courtyard and also opens up a seemingly three-dimensional space. As in other works, Eva Schlegel, Valerie Messini and Damjan Minovski also deal with the concept of space, the immaterial and the relationship between images and language in ‘Spheres’. The collaboratively developed AR sculptures in ‘Spheres’ expand the exploration of space, perception and the connection between humans and objects.

A project visiting Graz Museum Schlossberg.

Eva Schlegel, the visual artist, lives and works in Vienna. 1997-2006 Professor of Art and Photography, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna; 2011 Curator of the Austrian Pavilion, Venice Biennale. Exhibitions in Austria and abroad, including Galerie Krinzinger Vienna, Galerie Bo Bjerggaard Copenhagen, Galerie Wendi Norris San Francisco; un-limited, Ferenczy Museum, Budapest (S); Body-fiction, MNHA Museum, Luxembourg (G); New Acquisitions, Albertina (G); Japonismus, Kunstforum Vienna (G); Spaces, Kunsthalle Krems (S); Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2016, India; Architecture Biennale 2015, Buenos Aires (G); Multimedia Art Museum Moscow (S); in between, MAK – Museum of Applied Arts Vienna (S); Eva Schlegel, Secession Vienna (S) Austrian Pavilion, Venice Biennale 1995; Sidney Biennale 1988 and 1992; 1991 Cadences, the New Museum, New York (G) Aperto 1988, Venice. Numerous installations and permanent works (selection): multiple voices, Oklahoma Contemporary; extension of public space, Austrian Parliament, Vienna; cloud-space, Liaunig Museum; all around the world… Rigshospitalet Copenhagen; Libelle, Museumsquartier Vienna; Novartis Campus, Basle.