Herbert Golser :
Reflecting Wall

Herbert Golser has created a backdrop that creates various panoramas dt different times of the day for the users of the cycling path and the inhabitants of the town. The work consists of two tilted reflecting objects. By the way he positions the individual reflecting objects the artists brings together a number of situations in one single image. Each image is by itself a fragment, part of a mosaic of Klein-Pöchlarn with pieces of nature. Golser expands the town with the dimensions of the mirror. He blends various realities such as houses and water and creates a new world, a panoptical creation with light an shadows for the surprised viewer who also becomes a part of the object. When we stand in front of the mirror we enter a number of reflected images: the reflection duplicates itself, the mirror is refelcted in the mirror, resulting in overlappings and blends. Golser's objects reside at threshold between changing and static reality, between life and art, reality and fiction and between transparence and density. Crossing the boundary lines between the levels of reality also means crossing different levels of perception.
(Katharina Blaas-Pratscher)