Emi Rendl-Denk
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Art in Hollabrunn Hospital
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A decision of exemplary status was made concerning the commissioning of art projects for public space in Lower Austria in 1991. For the first time, an attempt was made to award artists commissions for specific concepts in categories of interior design usually associated with aesthetic issues but seldom with artistic ones.
She uses tracing paper because this means that a level behind it becomes visible. This enables her to clearly show at least three divergent ways of looking over the smallest of distances. The formal language is associative, i.e. is as much concerned with concrete elements as it is with symbols, and shows her relationship to basic research. What paint can do, what the pencil can do and the way oil pastels behave with it – and alterations resulting from storage (random discolouration, crinkling, reactions to temperature) – are just as much a part of the whole as the various partly unusually sized shapes that show what can change along with the format.
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