" Room of Venus "

Fundamental idea for a complete work of art with visual time stages

Photographs that I had made of a bronze sculpture of Venus by Milo formed the starting point of the work. These were placed on a turntable that had been split into segments making up 12 hours. The turntable was then rotated every hour to create 12 photographs of the view in chronological order. The completed series conveys the plasticity of the sculpture in a two-dimensional sequence.

This was followed by 30 variations of collage pieces. Reversal was the structural principle used for these. The first series of 15 photographic Venus views was mounted in front of changing backgrounds. These express the seasons, elements of nature and abstract structures in different terms.

In contrast to this, the second group, which is also made up of 15 pieces, visualizes the missing artificial plasticity photography of Venus. Here just their silhouettes are placed two-dimensionally in the remaining photographic space against the same motif.

The 30 pieces of work are hung to display the individual stages of the rotation with regards to these two variations.

In the middle of the room there is an installation consisting of the sculptural, artistic and photographic realization of the Venus motif in the form of architectural “mock style”. Here, too, a space-time level was visualized in a clockwise way.