Susanne Schuricht
Belvedere, Corpus 04
Makrolon, mixed Material
2009


"The room-corpus is accessible, you can sit or lie inside, its parts are within reach, sliding them you can change perspectives,
create a detail, which can be shifted again in the next moment. In the room-corpus, I’m separated from the world and especially
close to it at the same time."Belvedere, Corpus 04 is a cuboid, white, with sliding panels on the ceiling and the sides, slightly more
than two meters and a half high and one and a half meters wide.
Here the visitors become actors and spectators at the same time. The room-corpus invites them to stop and rest; it faces the
spectators with their environment and with themselves, with familiar and strange things. It works as a catalyst for perception
and motivates the spectators to become active themselves. They become aware of themselves as body - as perceiving subjects
in a dynamic interaction with their environment.
The reduced and clear form is in its simplicity an expression of deep humility before the richness of natural forms of the surrounding.
Only by reducing the possibilities of interaction concentration can be created. A state of awareness.
The artwork only becomes complete by the way the object is used and the spectators get to know and enlarge their perspectives.
There are formal references to modern architecture - the angle as a reference to Mies van der Rohe, the reduction to light and form,
the exposed volume - as well as references to the era of Renaissance like the Rotonda. Both are integrated into a private language,
a particular attitude towards the world, something radically referring to the present moment. (Susanne Schuricht)


Text by Wolf Guenter Thiel as PDF file

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Realised with technical support by Boris Hassenstein

Material-Sponsoring by Bayer Sheet Europe and puren gmbh


Evento collaterale alla 53. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte, La Biennale di Venezia



Photo: Alexandra Bello






Photo: Alexandra Bello




   

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