Sphere 315
In his work Sphäre 315, one four-millionth of the Earth’s diameter, Hartmut Skerbisch bolts together six circles, each scaled to the next by the golden ratio and thereby appealing to beholders’ sense of harmonious balance.
3D Fraktal 03/H/dd
Hartmut Skerbisch once said that “sculpture is not a discipline of the fine arts.” So what is it?
Catalogue: Hartmut Skerbisch. Life and Work
Editor? Verein der Freunde von Hartmut Skerbisch
Exhibition: The Paradise the Downfall
Hartmut Skerbisch – Media Works
20.11.2015-07.02.2016 10:00-17:00
Opening: 19.11.2015, 7 pm
Hartmut Skerbisch
Born 1945 in Ramsau am Dachstein, Hartmut lived and worked in Kalsdorf bei Ilz, East Styria, Austria.
Zinc Shelf
for silken bags filed with rice
The Very K
The manifestation process of the character K relates in various ways to the manifestation of sculpture, conveying a vague feeling of its origin, where it is our very own instrument of relating to concreteness.
Bartholdi, Eiffel, Kafka
In terms of physical presence, the Statue of Liberty in the New York Harbour stands as a human figure of roughly twentyfold life-size.
Eternal Gaze
“Ineluctable modality of the visible: at least that if no more, thought through my eyes.”
James Joyce, Ulysses, l/3
The Open
Wall frieze and floor-to-roof pane. Tools of basic opening, so that the exhibition space is also placed into the open and each element is set free, expressing itself.
Fluid
In an exhibition space two beamer groups beam their light at each other.
Easter
The basic definition of sculpture as an absolute Vis-á-Vis led tot he isolation of a crystal chandelier from a series of chandeliers oft he same typ by means of a steel tunnel.
The Tetrahedron
The atmosphere where wasp nests are built, pidgeon droppings accumulate and
Substance Bursting In
Manifestation like a higher play. „In its enactment, this scene should be as much imagination as reality”,
Spot X
„His shackles were undone, he paid, and everything was settled.“
Marquis de Sade,
The 120 Day of Sodom,
Day 19, no. 91 end.
Draft Through the Hall
Draft Through the Hall, appearance of golden yellow flags on iron poles, leaden tables stuck in heaps of coal. Process of materials for Myths of the Future.
Manifestation
„To take the spirit as it is: as something welling up, blossoming, coming ton o results. In the end, this leads tot he utopia oft he other life.“
Robert Musil
M o E, Moral und Krieg, sketch sheet
The Phenomenon’s essential Substance
Christine Frisinghelli, E.P. zugeeignet
Hartmut Skerbisch’s artistic project strikes one as work in the space between conceptual and perceptual art. On the one hand,
All have seen all
with Michael Schuster
Workshop, Final Presentation
A projection stage, accessible from all sides. On it, projectors and reflecting media:
Scene from the Play of the Same Title
with Michael Schuster
Obviously we could find out about it through a photographic image or this text. The play could be running at the local playhouse
Working on Skulpture
Werner Fenz
„Is the world falling apart into mere images, is identity exhausted in repetition? Through images, the world seems to have closed in on man more than ever.
Final Signature
The current product of the monitor as a production unit, from the smallest particle to its totality,
Two Flags Piece
A One person holds before him, at chest level, two white flags,
To the Imaginary Space Form Shall Be Given
As the last and ultimate enhancement of a library, the two „When we” sentences appear on the wall in bold letters as a mural.
Sceptre and Gleaming Stone
Entering exhibition rooms like one enters an enchanted castle.
The Monitor Speaks Its Language
Referring to the diverging views of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Oswald Wiener about the relationship between image and reality
Toward the True Vision of Reality
Upon leaving a Piet Mondrian/de Stijl restrospective, the visitors find the foyer changed.
leafy speafing situation
A On a monitor in front of him on the floor, a person observes a section of his own breathing chest
„What truth is inwardly preparing to converge with reality?”
Dialogue at the 14th of July 1994, Heike Maier, Hartmut Skerbisch
H.M. „Spatial Arrangement”, the motif on the catalogue’s endpaper,