Mader/Stublic/Wiermann
Artificial light changes how we see cities, both in functional and, increasingly, in
aesthetic terms. Its fascination for artists, designers and architects derives from
the fundamental role played by light in human perception. Light can create spaces
that exist independently of architectural constructions. Without light, images could
not be generated, perceived or reproduced, in films, videos or anywhere else. The
latest LED technology even permits images to be made from light. This approach has
been adopted now in Munich by realizing the new OSRAM light platform SEVEN SCREENS
which combines arts with cutting-edge technologies presented in the public space. In
future, and up to twice a year, artists will be invited by OSRAM to develop works
referring to the specific context.
Reprojected by Media artists Mader and Stublic, and architect Wiermann, based in
Berlin/Karlsruhe, engages in a site-specific and medium-specific way with visual
perception. The artists have created a virtual space around the seven light steles.
Light apparently coming from elsewhere seems to strike the steles like a spotlight.
For the viewer, real space and virtual space appear to co-exist, the two realms
intersecting at the masts. Computer-generated figures appear in front of the light
and are reproduced as silhouettes on the masts, before disappearing into the
surrounding darkness.
Curator of the new OSRAM SEVEN SCREENS is art historian Christian Schoen, director
of CIA.IS - Centre for Icelandic Art, Reykjavik, since 2005 and curator of the
Icelandic contribution to the 2007 Venice Biennale. Schoen has headed the OSRAM
GALLERY since 2001.
Mader/Stublic/Wiermann
Holger Mader (born in Basel in 1970 and based in Berlin), Alexander Stublic (born in
Saarbrucken in 1967 and based in Karlsruhe [ZKM] and Berlin) and Heike Wiermann
(born in Leipzig in 1971 and based in Berlin) have acquired a national and
international reputation for their dynamic multimedia installations involving light.
Their best-known projects include a recent piece at the Uniqa Towers in Vienna and
the video installation CUBE, currently showing at the new Museum Ritter in
Waldenbuch.
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