Current Projects - Friedhard Kiekeben

SHATTER

Installation (in Progress)

Earlier wall based installation projects, such as ‘Friction’ or ‘Crystal’ or ‘Field of Vision’ are made from sets of modular digital prints which are tailored to fit the requirements of a specific site. ‘Shatter’ and ‘Field of Vision’ are works dealing with perspective. Since the Renaissance photographically ‘true’ perspective has been the defining notion of three dimensional space. My recent digital installations use pseudo perspective elements generated by means of vector graphics. By deconstructing the rules of optical foreshortening these are assembled according to a multi-layered and multi-dimensional notion of space. ‘Field of Vision I’, which was made from a large scale laser print, installed at the Kunsthaus Wiesbaden in 2000 suggests infinite continuation of space towards an imaginary centre.

In the tailor made piece ‘Shatter’, would create a multi-facetted, or shattered, mirror cabinet of diverging perspectives which completely defies the certainties of the Renaissance notion of space.

This digital installation piece would be produced as a set of large format print elements which are then assembled / collaged directly on the gallery walls to make up the wall piece as a whole. In addition, one wall of the of the gallery would be left free of the print installation. Instead this wall, which appears like a natural projection screen, would be clad in gold coloured anodised aluminium panels. This metal screen would then mirror and reflect both the perspective illusion of the surrounding space as well as the viewers of the piece, who become part of it. Ultimately some sort of unity between perceiving subject, the spatial illusion of external space and the act of seeing is thus restored.

 

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Current object-based works

Haze
Works in progress 2004/05, etched brass, 120cm x 120cm

Gold Bars
Works in progress 2004/05, etched brass, various sizes