TONI KLEINLERCHER
ONGOING SCULPTURAL WORK2026–

NEGATIVE FORMS
(AFTER DEMONTAGE)

Production moulds made for an earlier work become autonomous sculptures of retained contact and material absence.

CONCEPT

Negative Forms (after Demontage) reactivates the plaster moulds produced for 36 Alpine Summits — A Demontage (Mountainwork VI) between 1990 and 1995.

Originally used as technical tools for casting the stoneware duplicates, the preserved moulds were not part of the museum acquisition. They are now being developed as an autonomous sculptural work.

Their cavities no longer function primarily as instruments of reproduction. They make the absent summit stones physically perceptible through hollows, boundaries and retained traces.

Original plaster moulds from Demontage displayed on white plinths
Negative Forms (after Demontage) · original plaster moulds · provisional installation view
Opened original plaster mould from Demontage
Negative Forms (after Demontage) · original plaster moulds · detail
Group of original plaster summit-stone moulds from Demontage
Negative Forms (after Demontage) · original plaster moulds · detail
Front view of opened original plaster moulds from Demontage
Negative Forms (after Demontage) · original plaster moulds · detail
Original plaster summit-stone mould with related fragments
Negative Forms (after Demontage) · original plaster moulds · detail
FORMAT

Ongoing sculptural work

MATERIAL

Original plaster moulds from 36 Alpine Summits — A Demontage (1990–1995)

STATUS

Autonomous work in development · 2026–

REFERENCE

Developed from production tools not included in the 2016 museum acquisition

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