CONCRETE AND SNOW (BETON UND SCHNEE), 2009

Video, HD 16:9, 6:20 min
Musik: Christian Konrad Schröder

Concrete And Snow is the visual exploration of a building, The Church of the Holiest Trinity, which was built in the mid 70s at the border of Vienna’s Forest, based upon a model by the Austrian sculptor Fritz Wotruba. The video shows the building in a calm and dry state. Snow partly covers the building, a pure white skin upon the complex textures of concrete patina.  

Wotrubas intention was “to create something that shows that poverty need not be ugly, that forbearance may be in an environment that is beautiful in spite of the utmost simplicity and also brings happiness. ” The hotly debated building, consisting of over 150 concrete blocks and panes has been assigned to the New Brutalism. The building is surrounded by a young forest which overcasts the concrete ruins of a humongous German World War II air base which was taken down by the Russian army after the end of the war.

Video, s/w, HD 16:9, 8:20 min, stereo

ISLAND DREAM, 2008

16:20 min HD, Stereo
Christina Mamakos, Patrick Topitschnig, Karl Kühn