Following the opening reception for the exhibition LINZ TEXAS, taking place on 3 December 2008 at 6:30 p.m. at the Architekturforum Aedes, the Pfefferberg Entwicklungsgesellschaft cordially invites you to attend the opening of the light installation in the outer area. From this date onward, the cultural center of Pfefferberg will be amplified by a light installation by Austrian artist Siegrun Appelt. The basic structure of the installation is formed by 50 spotlights mounted at various heights on the building façade. “In the form of a computer–generated dramaturgy, the lights turn on and off in variable combinations according to the ‘Monte Carlo’ method, that is to say the principle of chance, while nonetheless remaining calculable.
The lights can be combined in their switching sequences. Just as music or language consists of a finite quantity of elements, for example the 26 letters of the alphabet, the 50 spotlights make possible a light music of chance.” (Peter Weibel) The lights go on with “precise slowness” (Axel Jablonski), but are extinguished spontaneously. Emerging are larger and smaller light spaces which grow together and apart again. The result is a space in a perpetual state of change. Siegrun Appelt lives and works in Vienna. Her temporary light works have been featured at Vienna’s Museumsquartier, the Kunsthaus Bregenz, the ZKM Karlsruhe, and the Kunsthalle Schirn Frankfurt am Main, among other venues. One of her installations is currently on view in the portico of the German Pavilion of the Venice Architecture Biennale.
For more information on Siegrun Appelt, please visit the Internet pages: www.siegrunappelt.com
The artist will attend the inauguration.
