Wunderkammer: Voliere — Esterházy Now Collection, Hotel Galántha, Eisenstadt
Großer gelber Vogelbaum, Wunderkammer: Voliere, Hotel Galántha, Eisenstadt
Built from numerous, partly painted pieces of wood cut in a silhouette technique from Doka formwork boards, forming a three-dimensional marquetry made from construction-site material. A suggested conical flowerpot serves as its base, from which stems and blossoms grow, camouflaging the birds nested among them. Integrated lighting turns the birds' silhouettes into something between a flutter, a swarm, and a freeze frame.
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“The birds — or fragments of their silhouettes — appear like fleeting snapshots of a movement suspended somewhere between fluttering, swarming, and stillness. Yet instead of narrative clarity, it is abstraction that comes to the fore here. How many birds are there? Or is it one bird, multiplied and fragmented into countless splinters? This very ambiguity connects to a fundamental question in Koslitsch’s work: what remains graspable when everything is in motion?”
— Dominique Foertig, The Great Yellow Bird Tree: A Shimmering Construction in the Yellow Universe