36 ALPINE SUMMITS
— A DEMONTAGE
Mountainwork VI transfers the summit through removal, negative form, reproduction and irreversible transformation.
CONCEPT
36 Alpine Summits — A Demontage (Mountainwork VI) began with thirty-six summit stones. Plaster moulds were made from each stone and used to produce duplicates in stoneware.
The original summit stones were subsequently ground to dust and preserved in metal tins. The stoneware replicas retain their external forms while separating those forms from their geological substance.
The work reverses the conventional monumentality of the summit. Collection becomes erosion; possession becomes dissolution; and the mountain returns through replica, residue and classification.
The plaster moulds were production tools and were not part of the museum acquisition. They are now being developed as an autonomous sculptural work, Negative Forms (after Demontage).
Installation
Thirty-six stoneware replicas · dust from the original summit stones in metal tins · shelving system
1990–1995
Realised work · public collection
Collection of the State of Tyrol, Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck · acquired 2016
baumgrenze: die augäpfel nicht weit vom stamm · group exhibition · Galerie Freihausgasse, Villach, Austria · 1997
Alpinmuseum, Munich, Germany · 2000
arttirol. Kunstankäufe des Landes Tirol 2014–2016 · Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck · 2017–2018