Unland

UNLAND

Unland is a kind of recoded giant piece of origami approaches the themes of reality and geography in an abstract manner: a paper sculpture hung from thin nylon strings, becomes a projection sphere, a reservoir of associations, recalling, possibly, a cloud, or an iceberg, an island or artificial organism. The work is both map and model – both of them forms of abstractions from reality and at the same time an attempt at translating it into a system. Gansterer has invented a mirror world as an existential experimental arrangement, where strings emanating from reality are stitched up into poetical patterns: Unland is an heterotopical nowhere location evoking social networks which it metaphorically projects into fragments of texts and particles of sound. A thought-up construct between ego-graphics and geography.

Concept : Nikolaus Gansterer

Year: 2003 – 2006
Material/Technique: crushed paper, model figures, sound, nylonstrings
Dimensions: variable

Exhibited at:

– 2003, Die Zeichnung als Frage, Christine Koenig Galerie, Vienna

– 2005, Profiler, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna

– 2005, Spaciously, ACF, Warsaw

– 2006, Profiler, Futura Project / Karlin Studios, Prague

Publications:

– Profiler, Verena Kaspar, Christiane Krejs, (Eds.), catalogue, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Wien, 2005, ISBN 3-9502078-0-5

Reviews:

– „Assoziationskettenpflicht“, Doris Krumpl, in: Der Standard online. 20.07.2003
– „Interaktion“, Johanna Hofleitner: Christine König Galerie: in: Die Presse online. 17.07.2003