Bruno Gironcoli :
Apparatur

The Kunstraum Weikendorf, itself already an alien volume in the rural setting, had its impact quasi-doubled by the installation of the sculpture by Bruno Gironcoli. The work looked as if it had always been there, and the building looked as if it had been built exclusively for the sculpture. Alone the fact that it appears inexplicable that a sculpture of such dimensions could be put in the space is a riddle, but even more enigmatic is Gironcoli's sculpture itself. Its radical shape makes it look — as is the case with many of his works — as if it had emerged from an alien world of its own, one that rejects everything profane. The sculpture, a form reminiscent of a kind of machine addresses issues of birth and death, sexuality, violence and oppression.
Gironcoli's closed sculptural system engages with deeply human existential issues. This complexity of Gironcoli's work is contrasted with our banal reality, which becomes particularly clear in a situation like the one in Weikendorf.
(Michael Kienzer)