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    • visible only now
    • nur jetzt sichtbar
  • 1993/2007
  • aluminum letters, overall 27,5 × 243,5 cm
When, at the moment of looking at the picture, one sees the words “visible only now,” then perception and what is perceived coincide. Tautology is used here to make visible and draw attention to that which is usually overlooked. Here, self-reflexivity results in art that counters the internalization of language and in the ability to reflect on this internalization. Heinz Gappmayr’s works could be described as visual fixations of language, but which also deal with its ephemeral nature, its semantic dynamism. R.F.