Travellers

The longer Manfred Wakolbinger translates his cosmos into art, the clearer do the relations between his works surface. Working on different sculptures simultanously is a constant, he is aware of, one that he practically pursues, yet the links between the sculptures remain an invisible, imaginary web, penetrating everything in the background. With Travellers, he makes the step towards its visualization, towards the concrete mapping of links between his works. He refers back to the symbolic language of Placements, letting the digital objects voyage into real landscapes, where they plant themselves in a disturbing manner, conquering the fictive realm. Spherical sounds reference science fiction motives, in spite of cirrostratus clouds, isn’t rather a moon landscape; an otherwordly, unreal scenario.

Placements

“The sculptures of the group Placements search for their place in the world. They open up spaces, which did not and would not exist without them. They prompt interrelationships – between space and viewer, between viewer and space. Their design is related to furniture shapes, and, depending on how we stand, sit or lie, our perception of the world changes. We could also understand their shapes as the letters of a long-forgotten, or not-yet-existing, language”. (Mona Horncastle)