The Salzkammergut is viewed with the help of different data 3-dimensional landscape printed in postcard formats, while the view into the distance is shown in large-format images.
Fabian Puttinger – Cartographic
This project creates a unique link between a 120-year-old printing press and modern terrain and map data. With the help of three-dimensional embossed prints, which are produced directly on site on a hand-operated letterpress machine, fascinating regional features and contexts are illustrated. The resulting postcard-sized maps are gradually developed into a series and presented at the railway station. This collection enables a critical view of the Salzkammergut region and its challenges.
Norbert Artner – Exhibition: Landscape and Artificial Mountains
The theme is not only the original copies of the architecture, but also the images in the picture, which can be perceived as commentaries on the selected places in Hallstatt. Hallstatt meets China, China meets Hallstatt; Asian tourists visit the Salzkammergut, Austrians visit the reconstructed Hallstatt near the city of Huizhou in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong. …
Thomas Macho “Wahrzeichen Warenzeichen”, in Hallstatt Revisited, Linz 2015
The large-format photos from the Chinese Hallstatt replica […] do not – and this is their great strength – appear satirical or overbearingly critical of culture. Her performance is opening, it moves in the space of question marks and dashes, not exclamation marks and inverted commas. Artner’s art makes it clear that the world cultures of the future will not arise from conflict and competition, the dispute over original or copy, but from a multitude of new practices of participation, interest and the experience of diversity.
The works on display were created during research for the “Hallstatt Revisited” project in Guangdong Province and the sub-provincial city of Shenzhen.
Salt Lake Cities
Regional empty spaces as places of experience and meeting points for art: the Capital of Culture 2024 invites young artists from Germany and abroad to research, live and work in these spaces and to activate them with artistic contributions.
More about the project at salzkammergut-2024.at
