In Joachim Baur's multi-layered media sculpture Window, the interaction of art, (popular) culture, nature and science releases energy – real and figurative. The construction made of copper and iron functions like a battery that – fed by environmental influences – generates enough electricity to enable the autonomous sending of signals to http://window.mur.at/.
Formally, the sculpture takes up the dialogue with the "Klingensteiner Achteckstadel", a remarkable testimony to anonymous folk architecture from the 19th century, whose window openings are mirrored in Baur's Window via their construction principle. Etymologically, window can be derived, among other things, from the Old Icelandic vindauga (wind eye). A self-sustaining "ideal meadow", developed in cooperation with the Agricultural Research Station Gumpenstein, complements the ensemble on site, while The Great Piece of Turf by Albrecht Dürer, a pioneering icon of the connection between art and nature, is found on a brick object that accompanies the work in public space.
Location: 8071 Vasoldsberg 47°00'52.8"N 15°33'20.0"E
In cooperation with Werkstadt Graz.
