WORK SERIES / LANGUAGE AS MATERIAL2013–ONGOING

TEXTSCAPES

The complete contents of a newspaper issue are transformed from an ordered sequence of information into a material landscape.

Chinese Financial Times Weekend transformed into a sculptural newspaper landscape
Chinese Financial Times, Jan 11/12th, 2014 · 2014Photo: Toni Kleinlercher

CONCEPT

Each relief uses the complete contents of one international daily newspaper from a single date. The pages are torn, sorted and partly processed into papier-mâché. Images recede into the ground while fragments of text return to the surface.

The original editorial hierarchy is dismantled. What began as a linear sequence of news becomes a topography of ridges, depressions and thresholds: at once archive, landscape and material memory of a particular day.

Textscapes examines the difference between information and knowledge. Information appears as an open and cumulative field; knowledge forms through resistance, interruption and connection. Reading shifts from succession to spatial encounter.

SELECTED WORKS

Textscapes relief made from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
FAZ, April 2nd, 2015
2015 · newspaper, papier-mâché and wood panel · 80 × 120 × 12 cm
Photo: Günther Selichar
Textscapes relief made from Der Standard
Der Standard, 22/23 January 2022
2022 · newspaper, papier-mâché and wood panel · 80 × 120 × 14 cm
Photo: Toni Kleinlercher
Textscapes relief made from the Nihon Keizai Shimbun
Nihon Keizai Shimbun, April 13th, 2014
2014 · newspaper relief and collage · 80 × 120 × 12 cm
Photo: Toni Kleinlercher
Der Mut zum Nichts newspaper collage by Toni Kleinlercher
Der Mut zum Nichts
2013 · newspaper collage · 45 × 30 × 2 cm
Photo: Toni Kleinlercher
SPATIAL PRESENTATION

EXHIBITION VIEWS

Textscapes installed as wall reliefs
Textscapes · installation view · Photo: Toni Kleinlercher
Textscapes presented horizontally on low metal supports
Textscapes · installation view · Photo: Toni Kleinlercher
Installation view of Textscapes with wall and floor works
Textscapes · installation view · Photo: Toni Kleinlercher
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2016 — Im Kampfgebiet der Poesie, Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten, Graz, Austria

2022 — ZEICHEN | WORTE | KÖRPER, Kulturschloss Reichenau, Reichenau an der Rax, Austria · 24 June–28 August 2022

STATUS

Ongoing work series · unique works