Faltbuch
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- Folding Book
- Faltbuch
- 2019/2020
- Installation; paper, canvas, wood; readymade
- 260 × 1200 × 4,4 cm
For Kontakt, Florian Pumhösl designed a modular spatial setting that can be unfolded in various directions and, as such, is well suited to the presentation of multiple film or video installations. The artist designed a similar system of walls for documenta 12 (2007)—in that case to present reverse glass paintings, a display case, and textile works—that consisted of panels covered in bookbinding linen and connected by hinges. The present variant is even more similar to a book that can be unfolded in various directions, with its black binding and white pages on the inside intended for projections. Pumhösl has made available three works from his now dozen-strong filmic oeuvre as loans for projection into this foldable space: "Animated Map" (2005), in which the moving paper patterns for a World War I-era soldier’s uniform give rise to an overall human figure in animated sequences; "EI335721443JP – Yuzen Hiinagata – Yuzen’s Muster von 1688" (… Yuzen’s Pattern from 1688) (2009), in which similarly employed 17th-century Japanese kimono patterns disappear the very moment they manifest a figure; and "Tract" (2011), which starts from graphical dance notations in order to visualize a dynamic relational structure comprised of dot, line, figure, and space in perpetual animation. C.H.