Playing with history

Through this piece the history of the e-halle will be told and reinterpreted. For his installation Zimmermann will utilise the space and the names on the various destination bays; where once the temporary storage of goods would have filled the space whilst waiting for further transportation to its final destination. These now empty, will set the scene for the wooden slats used in the installation; after one week the installation and the wooden slats will find further use at other destinations. Zimmermann's hallmark of 10.000 Plasterer's wooden slats of 270 x 2.5 x 0.8 cm, are continuously transformed by the weather and the wear of their repeated use. The same 10 000 slats, which are now the base material for the installation "Destinationen" in the e-halle, have already been used in installations by Zimmerman in the Art Centre PasquArt in Biel, "Mondsee Land Art" in Salzburg, the Bobsleigh Run in St. Moritz and last summer they were used for the project "Lauberhornrace in Summer".

Patricia Glauser art-tv.ch

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