UNIQUE
The successive Façade of a Form
71 Circular Shapes of a Wall in Offenbach am Main
Weißfrauen Diakoniekirche
Frankfurt am Main 2018
Installation / Exhibition View
Photographs (Documentation)

CIRCLE SHAPES
Partial photographs of a wall in Offenbach am Main
Assembly / Segmentation /
Direct print on OWA mineral plates. 62x 62 cm each

This work reproduces parts of the rear wall of a building in Offenbach am Main using photography, digital montage and direct printing.

The motifs are the decorative circles of this wall, which were painted onto the large coloured areas on the back of the building as a decorative structure. The grey circles appear special on each part of the wall: through the material and the spatiality of the background, the painting style, but also through the damage and repairs.
In addition to the original wall design, the photographs also visualise the interventions, changes, futility and disappearance.

At first glance, the images appear to be a simple photographic transfer of the motif. However, they always combine many visual axes and work steps.
Each part of the picture has an almost right-angled axis to the subject. Recesses and protrusions were photographed and mounted in sections in order to minimise the angles and perspective shifts of the surface sizes. In this way, spatiality and plasticity are created illusionistically; in colour and tone values, light and dark.

This work thus refers to painting in two ways: in the motif and in the reproduction.

The composite high-resolution files were transferred in light and colour stages by direct printing onto primed panels from the OWA ceiling system.
The prints are serial reproductions of found painted forms. At the same time, the images are representatives or a documented part of the wall of an Offenbach building that was demolished in 2020.

The result of the work is a sequence of circles (approx. 70 square picture panels, each measuring
62 centimetres in size). The dimensions of the wall, the positions of the circles and the colour changes of the original design were recorded in the documentary material.

For the installation in the Weißfrauen Diakoniekirche in Frankfurt in 2018, the dimensions of the picture panels were multiplied, transferred to a space-filling grid system and placed in the church interior. With the subdivisions and empty spaces between the angled profiles and surfaces, perspective visual axes were placed in the space, which act as a counter-image to the two-dimensionality of the transferred painting. The archive concept was taken up with shelving systems in which all the circles would find their place.