Detlef Hartung, Georg Trenz, Josef Gründler
In cooperation with the Graz Museum Schlossberg

The Graz Museum Schlossberg is a very special place. It offers a unique panoramic view and provides orientation. An interface between heaven and earth.

The work “Constellations” by Detlef Hartung and Georg Trenz interprets this place as the zero point of its own location and transforms the courtyard of the museum and its surrounding buildings into an experimental, immersive planetarium of light and typography. A cosmos of language and writing. Infinite expanses and worlds, generated from the 26 characters of our alphabet. Representing the 3000 or so stars visible from one point in the firmament, around 3000 words composed of 4 letters are projected. One of them: G R A Z. The sound for this project is provided by Josef Gründler from Graz.

KLANGLICHT 2022

Graz Museum Schlossberg / Wundergarten

Biography
Detlef Hartung and Georg Trenz have developed their own form of artistic expression over more than 20 years of collaboration, transforming texts into impressive images. Concrete language becomes pictorial signs in terms of both content and form. The resulting word images create large-scale image-text spaces that correspond with the real, three-dimensional spaces onto which they are projected.