OSZ_Skulptur 2009, Z-LASER Optoelektronik GmbH, Freiburg
OSZ_Skulptur 2009
Z-LASER Optoelektronik GmbH, Freiburg | Chinese Gabbro | sawn, sandblasted, polished | LED-Light | 133 x 133 x 622 cm
Z-LASER Optoelektronik GmbH, Freiburg | Chinese Gabbro | sawn, sandblasted, polished | LED-Light | 133 x 133 x 622 cm
Dualistic principle OSZ sculpture, Jochen Kitzbihler 2009
Since the fall of 2009, Z-Laser Optoelektronik GmbH - and with it the office and business park - has had a new landmark facing Merzhauser Straße: a six-meter-high pillar by Jochen Kitzbihler.
The work of art has a day side and a night side. “Welcome to the World of LASER”,1 it seems to want to say at night, when the elongated company building disappears into the darkness behind the red illuminated stone pillar.
The sculpture is not illuminated from the outside, but magically glows out of itself, or more precisely: out of its incisions. There are 14 in total, structuring the vertical block of gray-black gabbro all around. Two split, horizontal, uneven lines divide it into thirds. Each of the three units is divided by four straight incisions, so that the sculpture consists of 15 individual blocks.
The rectangular surfaces of the blocks point upwards in the lower third, downwards in the middle and towards the sky in the upper third. This dynamic of forces, as well as the change from geometric to broken joints, lend the monolith with its square ground plan its quiet rhythm. The sandblasted outer surfaces appear matt during the day, the sculpture closes itself off from the surrounding space in order to unfold its self-referential effect. At night, the polished inner surfaces of the incisions reflect the red laser light, the oscillation of which led to the title “OSZ sculpture”.
At first, the laser was just an aid: “The effect of form when natural stone and focused laser light meet,” writes Kitzbihler, “fascinated me for many years when sawing my sculptures on the wet, reflective sawing tables in natural stone factories.” Since 2005, the sculptor has also incorporated the laser into his work, creating the stone-laser work group (see: /sculpture/laser-sculptures). Man-made technology interacts with solidified matter, such as gabbro, which was formed over thousands of years from glowing, slowly cooling basaltic magma. The stone for the OSZ sculpture comes from a quarry in Qingdao, China, where the cuts were also made.
Kitzbihler coordinated the precision work on site. By sea container the 25-ton sculpture arrived in Freiburg.
In accordance with the dualistic philosophy of East Asia, it now builds up opposites in direct relation to the rotation of the earth, as manifested in the interplay of day and night, in order to overcome them. (Birke Klima)
The sculpture is not illuminated from the outside, but magically glows out of itself, or more precisely: out of its incisions. There are 14 in total, structuring the vertical block of gray-black gabbro all around. Two split, horizontal, uneven lines divide it into thirds. Each of the three units is divided by four straight incisions, so that the sculpture consists of 15 individual blocks.
The rectangular surfaces of the blocks point upwards in the lower third, downwards in the middle and towards the sky in the upper third. This dynamic of forces, as well as the change from geometric to broken joints, lend the monolith with its square ground plan its quiet rhythm. The sandblasted outer surfaces appear matt during the day, the sculpture closes itself off from the surrounding space in order to unfold its self-referential effect. At night, the polished inner surfaces of the incisions reflect the red laser light, the oscillation of which led to the title “OSZ sculpture”.
At first, the laser was just an aid: “The effect of form when natural stone and focused laser light meet,” writes Kitzbihler, “fascinated me for many years when sawing my sculptures on the wet, reflective sawing tables in natural stone factories.” Since 2005, the sculptor has also incorporated the laser into his work, creating the stone-laser work group (see: /sculpture/laser-sculptures). Man-made technology interacts with solidified matter, such as gabbro, which was formed over thousands of years from glowing, slowly cooling basaltic magma. The stone for the OSZ sculpture comes from a quarry in Qingdao, China, where the cuts were also made.
Kitzbihler coordinated the precision work on site. By sea container the 25-ton sculpture arrived in Freiburg.
In accordance with the dualistic philosophy of East Asia, it now builds up opposites in direct relation to the rotation of the earth, as manifested in the interplay of day and night, in order to overcome them. (Birke Klima)
Text source: Sculpture in Freiburg, Volume 3: New Art in Public Spaces ed. New Art in Public Spaces ed: Michael Klant (modo, 2009)
Download (below): Text for OSZ_Skulptur “Sculpture in Freiburg” , Birke Klima, ed. Michael Klant (modo 2009, ISBN 978-3-86833-030-4)
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