Peter Sandbichler: Untitled
Factsheet
Format: Light sculpture
Location: 1010 Wien, Rathausstraße 1, BUWOG Customer and Administrative Centre
Creation: 2001
Artist: Peter Sandbichler (*1964 in Kufstein, lives and works in Vienna), www.petersandbichler.com
Info/Scope: Light sculpture made of coloured Plexiglas in the shape of an icosahedron; first shown in 2001 as part of the KunstLicht exhibition in the BUWOG Customer and Administrative Centre. With regard to content, Sandbichler makes reference to the Geodesic Dome by American architectural visionary Richard Buckminster Fuller.
Dimensions: 100 cm diameter
Peter Sandbichler: Untitled
The three-dimensional figure consists of 20 equilateral triangular surfaces arranged in such a way that they form the basic body of an icosahedron. Deep protrusions in the curved surfaces suggest an immaterial sphere, which plays off the strict geometry of the polyhedron. The artist finds inspiration for the light sculpture with its colourful segments in the visionary Richard Buckminster Fuller, who succeeded in making the world more comprehensible in its three-dimensionality with spectacular models and buildings. In Sandbichler's work, the icosahedron appears in various groups of works. In his ongoing series The Uniform of the Private, he braces six objects that are non-ideal according to the construction principle of tensegrity in such a way that they keep each other suspended without touching. His walk-in sculpture Lebenskapsel / Life Capsule, 2001 – a spatial wooden construction whose triangular surfaces are covered with transparent plastic film – was positioned as a futuristic “observation centre” on city rooftops or in parks to give users a different view of the world.
Other works by Peter Sandbichler in BUWOG’s art collection: Ohne Titel / Untitled, 2002.
