about the artwork
This series of images shows the location of already realized sculptures in fictitious landscapes and spaces, freed from economic and practical constraints, they function as a kind of guardian spirit of a new way of life, in a hermitage on a mountain top, or in inaccessible post-capitalist enclaves within the city.In some cases, they have real-life models - for example, the battle tower in Vienna's Augarten park becomes a sublime vanishing point of enraptured living with the water sculpture "Yin Yang Machine" - a utopian place that belongs to the urban space as much as it is removed from it, and the inlet structure to a reservoir of the Vienna waterworks in Johann Staud Strasse presents itself (high above the panel architecture of a desolate office and commercial zone) as a refuge for a loose community, whose existence is confirmed by a bronze head constantly spewing water.The rigorous exploitation of all real estate and the commercialization of public space creates a longing for the last urban open spaces: these are wastelands, precarious places, overgrown or dark, not yet functionalized buildings and terrains that are doomed to disappear and therefore shine.
Gerhard Zsambok Österreich
Gerhard Zsambok launched a research project in 1988 that deals with the properties and abilities of water and has not only shown his kinetic objects in numerous exhibitions, but has also received prizes and awards for them. Based on drawings of his concepts, form and function dominate his water sculptures, which produce enigmatic, little-known phenomena and effects of water. His "magic of water" is based on the continuous renewal of flowing water without human intervention.
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