Michael Sailstorfer and Heinert Jürgen/3 Ster mit Ausblick
Michael Sailstorfer and Heinert Jürgen
3 Ster mit Ausblick, Video, 1’47’’, 2002
courtesy of agi verona collection
The artists created a video in which a small wooden cabin, immersed in a countryside landscape, appears. That image inspired the title of the artwork, which can be translated to “three cubic meters of wood with a view”. There’s a heater inside the small residence, which during the span of a day burns all of the material around it. The video recounts the gradual disappearance of the cabin that, cut piece by piece, frees the view of the landscape: only the stove remains, as it burns the last wooden boards that used to make up the lodging while, in the background, the day dwindles into the night. The piece overturns the function of the domestic fireplace, shifting it from its common meaning of centre of the household and place of gathering and spirituality, towards the exact opposite, i.e. the assailant of a kind of intimacy and security that are slowly attacked to offer nourishment for the stove.
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