Zwischen den Welten (Between the Worlds) 2017

Between the worlds 2017
In Situ-Installation, Kunstraum Foth. Topographic laser scans (Hill Shades) Vorarlberg Austria | FineArtPrint, printed on both sides, crumpled and unfolded, 5-parts | 307 x 225 cm. Image data used with the kind permission of Geo-Information-Stelle (GIS) Vorarlberg | Sculpture in space: Honigwand 2014 | Granite sculpture, matt polished. Size 38 x 31 cm | Double exhibition being HUMAN - human BEING, Kunstraum Foth and Goethe Institut Freiburg, 2017

(…) In Freiburg's Kunstraum Foth, he has now arranged some of his most recent works into a coherent, immensely dense meditation on the conditions of our existence. Flanked by a razor-sharp landscape scan on crumpled paper and wonderfully mysterious portrait photographs of asteroids, which are moving in space as repositories of primordial matter, Kitzbihler presents on the wall on a plain square rod made of brass a round-cut lump of rock (Erdling 2017, see S....), which with its patina inscribed by the history of the earth looks like a replica of a prehistoric head sculpture. In a kind of darkroom next door, a blue quartzite from Brazil, milled into a sphere, lies on the floor in the glare of a spotlight (Rare Earth 2017: /sculpture/installations/seltene-erde-2017-). The grinding marks of the machine have eaten into the planet-like form like lines of latitude, next to which the viewer feels at once oversized and vanishingly tiny in a strangely intense way.