Ursula Hübner
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Ursula Hübner's 'Kugel' won a competition for the design of a safety curtain at the St. Pölten Stadt Theater. For the artist it is a "suggestive symbol for the materialisation of the energy that gets something rolling." The relief effect on the curtain changes with the lighting.
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In terms of form and content the sphere is multiply present in the world. It is its measure and its pure form, additionally it is a reference in both everyday life and in the cultural world as a symbol and image. Ursula Hübner employs it from the perspective of painting, where it has always determined (abstract) modernism between abstraction and concretion. Kugel (Sphere) is a dominant round form on a light-coloured background, its dark grey-green colouring complements the colour of the space. By lighting it in different ways its degree of plasticity can be increased and by use of special theatrical methods it can create different moods and effects. In contrast to the standard design of theatre curtains, which often employ motifs from plays or operas as associative narratives, Ursula Hübner sees the sphere shortly before the performance begins as a moment of concentration and compaction, as a "suggestive sign of the materialisation of energy that sets the ball rolling" (Ursula Hübner). After all at the movies the MGM lion roars out of a circle and the Paramount torch-bearer stands on top of a globe.
(Susanne Neuburger)
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