maybe it could be an angel?
If you look up at the dome of the entrance area of the HGM/Vienna, you may observe an unknown entity, which/who actually doesn’t want to be anything but dreams of being everything. However, conceptually it is fighting/longing for the timeless moment nowhere and everywhere to be an uncertain breath or/and abstract idea inbetween nothing/everything-error/trial. (Maybe/for sure in between 1/on/light/ non-fictional/nature/physics and 0/off/shadow/fictional/semantic/Homo sapiens interpretations of its existence). So the concept/semantic idea of this 3D formation „maybe it could be an angel?“ dreams of to be even inbetween the inbetween: inbetween the particles/waves of light, inbetween tactile mathematics, breathing machines, dead nature, rational rituals, active paralysis-semantic activities, the judging, homicidal Homo sapiens longing solely for love and eventually like the honest artistic attempt resulting in pathetic words and a technical limited 3D model of an angel (of peace).
Hence the 3D model „maybe it could be an angel?“ is a tiny dot of the mentally/semantically and physically not accessible imagination/manifestation of an angel, communicating the idea of, if homo sapiens ever would have been able to really empathize (f.e. taking altruistically personal time to really communicate with each other) with all kinds of entities on this planet (something angels suppose to do...), the irrational (homo sapiens) phenomenon of making war would have never evolved.
initiator/curator: artificial museum & Elena Messner
related idea/concept/research/artist: Anna Watzinger/spring 2022
title: „ maybe it could be an angel?“
media: 3D model/GPS-AR: entrance HGMuseum 1030 Vienna
method: conceptual hybrid found footage modified composition of 3D-models (2) and one image (1)
final 3D realization: Peter Varnai/special thanks: artificial museum
(1)
information & image source of the head of the 3D-model: „Angelus Novus“, Paul Klee 1920 (website call: 5.5.2022)
(2)
credits/Creative Commons Attribution 3D models/original source:
„Le Corbusier Modulor|Figure|Human scale“
Weiterführende Info:
Das Motiv des Engels ist multidimensional. Es ist ein nonbinäres Mischwesen zwischen den Welten mit einem Ausdehnungsspektrum von 0-360°, ein mathematisch-philosophisches Phänomen, in Stein gemeißelt und im Traum erschienen.
Der Kopf der 3D-Engelsfigur „ maybe it could be an angel?“, welcher der einzige flache/2D Teil und somit eine geometrische unendliche Kugel assoziieren soll, ist ein Ausschnitt des Gemäldes Angelus Novus von Paul Klee (München, 1920) und entstand folglich in einem Europa, geprägt von den Spuren des Ersten Weltkrieges und den Nachwehen der Spanischen Grippe. Ein Jahr später erstand der Philosoph, Kulturkritiker und Übersetzer Walter Benjamin das Kunstwerk und machte es durch seine Reflexionen und Denkbilder zu einer der bedeutendsten Engelsdarstellungen der Kunstgeschichte.