Peter Sandbichler :
Roundabout in Hadersdorf-Kammern

Peter Sandbichler proposed an installation for a roundabout in Hadersdorf. He took an analytical approach to the difficult exercise of completing a roundabout, a construction exercise that has been pursued with a vehement will to design in recent years. His concept unifies a principally sculptural approach with the conditions for perception and awareness. A group of five modular moulded concrete elements were to be positioned in a circle at a distance to one another and at some distance from the edge of the road. Each of the roughly seven metres long and three metres high walls is assembled out of modular elements with transparent ornamentation. Sandbichler calls them "membranes", comprising basic elements from various epochs, styles and cultures, which he has rendered abstract and translated into an endless structure. He emphasises that he has also incorporated elements of local regional architecture in the process. They were to be lit up at night. Decisive for drivers is the phenomenon of transparency and overlapping as they pass, the effect at night that Sandbichler describes as "like filters of a light machine that generate varying sequences of images". These appear to be conceived as matching the focus and the radially conceived elements of the roundabout, and although they block the view they open up new perspectives, ones with both a visual and a culturally encoded dimension.
(Susanne Neuburger)