Friedrich Biedermann: Intensifications Matrix
Factsheet
Format: Art in architecture/Light installation
Location: 1110 Vienna, Gussriegelstraße 17, Heller Park residential complex
Creation: 2011
Artist: Friedrich Biedermann (*1975 in Hopfgarten, lives and works in Vienna), www.friedrichbiedermann.com
Info/Scope: Friedrich Biedermann developed a three-dimensional script code for component/entrance 3 in Heller Park – a residential complex that includes a nursing home, which BUWOG built on the site of the former Heller candy factory. Beyond localisation and identification, Intensification Matrix dialogues with residents via text – in subtle colour during the day and as a luminous cipher in the dark.
Dimensions: Three-part sculpture for the component at Gussriegelstraße 17 (entrances 3–6)
Measurements (W x D x H in m)
Object 1: 8 x 6 x 3 m
Object 2: 10.5 x 8.5 x 1.5 m
Object 3: 7 x 4.5 x 3 m
Structural scale: Residential complex comprising five components and a total of 240 residential units
Friedrich Biedermann: Intensifications Matrix / Intensification Matrix
Friedrich Biedermann is a sculptor, and light is the immaterial material of his “perceptual images”. With Intensifications Matrix, he marks highly frequented locations in Heller Park: “Light tapes” that glow in the dark snake across façades and entrances, leading from the exterior to the interior. With “rounded, wavy, curving” arches, the media artist references the “beautiful line” of the Renaissance, the line as the initial element of every design, handwriting, or the sound waves of human communication. The work provides clues for identification and location and also engages in dialogue with the residents through texts. “My aim was to render the building’s dynamics visible, creating visual islands that function both day and night.”
Photo: © Friedrich Biedermann