The german sculptor Ulrich Rückriem, well known for geometrically divided and rearranged blocks of stone, now shows a series of conceptual drawings in a small exhibit at Museum Ludwig in Cologne. The black and white wall drawing and prints are based on a grid of 7×7=49 crosspoints.
7 points are selected and connected by straight lines which touch each point only one time and then get back to their origin. This produces a variety of acute-angled geometrical drawings.
The aesthetic system is based on what is known as a standoff situation in checkers game: Eight pieces stand on positions on the game board from where none of them can beat one another, neither on horizontal or vertical lines nor on diagonals.
berlin07 @ transmediale
i really really dig this installation – just dont remember by whom?!
reminds me a bit of hito steierls work at the documenta (3 orange cinema displays)
The three will present DOT in the Audiovisual Performance program of the 24th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival which Marcus and me were proud to co-curate.
The 2007 program of the festival will be published soon – i´ll keep you posted.
“Bridge is a spectacular new site-specific design commission for Dilston Grove, London (Cafe Gallery Projects) by Michael Cross. Housed in a former church, (one of the earliest examples of poured concrete construction and a Grade II listed building), the piece comprises submerging two thirds of the inside of the church in water, and producing a series of steps which rise out of the apparently empty man-made ‘lake’ as you walk across them. Each step emerges one step in front of you and disappears back underneath behind you as you go. This ‘bridge’ is purely mechanical, the weight of the person on it depresses each step a little, this force activates a submerged mechanism which raises the next step.
The public are invited to walk out on it as if walking on water, eventually reaching the middle of the lake, thirty steps and twelve meters from the shore. There they will stand alone and detached, stranded in the middle of a plane of water until they choose to return the way they came. For some people this experience of being cut off and surrounded by water will be peaceful, for others terrifying. For some walking across the water will be pure childish joy, whilst others will be too scared to try”.
