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MidEngineManiac
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JUN 07, 07:47 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by fredtoast:
So invalids, infants, and mentally handicapped people rule the world?
Interesting logic. |
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Pretty much !
Take one look at Ottawa (or Washington) and thats about all you will find !!
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Patrick
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JUN 07, 08:45 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by fredtoast:
So invalids, infants, and mentally handicapped people rule the world?
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| quote | Originally posted by MidEngineManiac:
Pretty much !
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Keep sucking on those cigs then, and you'll soon be head honcho in Ottawa!
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cliffw
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JUN 07, 11:49 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by fredtoast:
So invalids, infants, and mentally handicapped people rule the world?
Interesting logic. |
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It is not. Your thought makes me wonder about you (your not special, I even wonder about me)
The world demands nobody criticizes nobody. We all rule the world.
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rinselberg
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JUN 08, 08:23 PM
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Competition for the Permanent Artistic Contextualization of the Dr. Karl Lueger Monument
Winning Design Proposal: Schieflage (Karl Lueger 3,5°), which translates as Imbalance (Karl Lueger 3,5°).
Statement from the committee that selected the winning proposal:
| quote | "Thirteen years ago, the University of Applied Arts Vienna initiated the questioning of the Lueger-Monument at the Stubentor with a symposium and an open competition. Klemens Wihlidal's proposal emerged as the winner from this competition. Since then, there have been lively discussions about the Lueger-Monument and the square in politics and civil society. Out of these debates emerged the competition for the artistic contextualization of the monument, which was launched by the City of Vienna.
After extensive discussions of the submitted competition entries, the jury came to the conclusion that this project proposal by Klemens Wihlidal has lost none of its relevance: his design transforms the monument into a disturbance in public space. The minimal formal irritation proves to be a strong sign in the city. The artistic proposal raises questions and keeps them open.
The sculpture is tilted by 3.5° and visually loses its balance. The inclination breaks the claim of monumentality. This visual punch line opens up even without prior information and leads to a continuation of the debates.
Klemens Wihlidal's project shows how a public debate conducted over years leads to a heightened awareness in civil society. The transformation of the monument undermines the affirmative view of Lueger's politics of exclusion and his racist and anti-Semitic hate speech. The 'skew' changes perspectives on the past and present." |
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Statement from Klemens Wihlidal:
| quote | "With my design, I do not want to change the existing monument, but the view and perspective on it. With the 'minimal' intervention of tilting the statue and pedestal 3.5° to the right from the viewer's perspective, the venerability is to be broken and the sincerity questioned. In doing so, I want to trigger an irritation, or even more, a moment of uncertainty that may only become noticeable upon a second look.
The tilted position is also reminiscent of a sinking ship or evokes a sense of transience and impermanence, as if one has to watch the monument just about to topple over, or at least reckon that it won't stand for much longer." |
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TO BE FILED UNDER "ESOTERICA"
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rinselberg
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JUN 09, 02:20 PM
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Competition for the Permanent Artistic Contextualization of the Dr. Karl Lueger Monument
Winning Design Proposal: Schieflage (Karl Lueger 3,5°), which translates as Imbalance (Karl Lueger 3,5°).
This is a scale model... it's a photograph of a scale model... actually it's a digital image of a photograph of a scale model...
Ahem. As I was saying, this is a scale model from the Winning Design Proposal. It was provided to help the judges to visualize the impact of modifying the base of the statue to tilt the statue itself and shift it by a displacement of 3.5° (three and a half degrees) from vertical.[This message has been edited by rinselberg (edited 06-09-2023).]
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