Armin Keplinger: Mass: One: Cat. Kunstverein Heilbronn

By Armin Keplinger

Two panes of glass hanging in the room are slowly pulled away from one another by their lower edges; released, they swing back, collide, and shatter. The video by Armin Keplinger (born 1982 in Linz, lives in Berlin), which seems to demonstrate an experiment, explores the interactions and intersections of a material that exists as a sculpture both in analog space and in a digital space created by the artist. One of the two panes of glass is not real, but is indeed virtual. Virtual reality for Armin Keplinger is a way of formulating and expanding a concept of sculpture that he stages independent of gravity and physical laws. Glass repeatedly plays a prominent role in his works in a broad variety of contexts; due to its transparency and our notion of mass, things could invariably take a different course. But for Armin Keplinger, practically any material may be used to formulate the intriguing hybrid nature of a sculpture, its relationship to space as well as its function, since he too seems to delight in the old question about the notion of sculpture: is it science or art?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3864423775
• ISBN13: 9783864423772
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Snoeck Publishing Company
• Length: 24 Pages