Gegenlauf

The landscape of this work is built from one figure: plateaus, separated by straight fracture edges.

The work belongs to the Minimal Quaderspuren series: a field of identical cuboids, pushed into the ground to different depths to form a city of rectangles, and on it cubes made of cubes that roll over their edges. The ground gives way to them and keeps their colour for a while. The set-up is described under “Spalten”, the basic form of the series.

Placement in the post-digital model of positing

Each track follows the same rule, only the direction changes. The beat arises between the tracks, not in any single one.

The series works with grid, rhythm and repetition. Deviation comes from the height at which each cuboid stands in the ground, and from the sequence: cubes rolling one behind the other are at different phases of their rotation. The repetition lives on this variance.

Square and rectangle are concrete forms, in the ground as in the bodies upon it. Only where the movement meets the ground does it receive an informal impulse. Two concrete structures whose interaction has an informal consequence – here again lies the field of tension between the concrete and the informal. Between the two poles, stages can be traced here: the fixed grid, the cube rolling edge over edge, the ground that gives way and springs back, the trail that holds its colour only for a while.

Between the non-representational and the representational: the spatial view alone already presents the concrete forms representationally, as bodies in space. The series is thus in fact a virtual sculpture in motion – a sculptural digital animation.