Convergence line - Urban triptique
Site-specific installation in urban space
2013 "Transit für Karl Aspern" Kunstlerhaus, Vienna
A skein of red thread lies on one arm of a Rubens sculpture at the Kunstlerhaus Museum's entrance door. One end of the line disappears into the ground, only to reappear in the shape of stitching on the opposite wall. Many miles away, the thread finally resurfaces from the ground in Seestadt Aspern.
Statement/The gentle reminder
Does the fabric of a city determine and shape our lives as citizens? Or is it us city-dwellers, the ones who, thread by thread, weave the town we like to inhabit into existence? Is the answer somewhere in between these ideas?
Both preplanned urban settlements on loosely woven urban patches - like the ongoing project in Seestadt Aspern - and deep and tightly woven city areas throughout the ages - such as Karlsplatz in central Vienna - have confronted us with this and similar questions daily.
“Convergence line / Urban tryptic” is a site-specific installation, a piece of urban pop art which goes further in signalling art as the constant booster of new connections/horizons as well as reminding us of the key role that art has to play as “meaning-crafter”, being this latter an undeniable quality when it comes to plan and effectively change both new or old city areas to transform them in places worth to live in.