Art competition Bundesschulzentrum Tamsweg, Sbg., Lungau.

Prebers’ dream

Like sculptures in the fine arts, mountains are depicted with their chocolate sides.

If you approach the mountain from a different side than the published one, you will hardly be able to recognize it. Even more irritating is the view from the bird’s eye perspective: the formations and mass ratios appear completely different.

I have developed the >ideal outline form< for the Tamsweg local mountain and transferred this into a concentrically diminishing surface opening. The tense planes create surfaces that become smaller and smaller (vice versa), which in the first moment represent a journey into the mountain. However, since they themselves are developed from only one surface, the body component is missing. They are reminiscent of a mountain layered into vertical or horizontal planes in a computer tomograph, but are bodies only when they are in harmony themselves.

Here I work on my basic theme of the ever more fluid, floating border between two- and three-dimensionality.

The resulting 16 outlines form double frames of metal, between which fabric is stretched. This can be changed and replaced every now and then. Between the two cm wide frame is placed the respective material, fixed, then pulled in all other directions and screwed. If the textile is stretched, it is cut off at the overhangs.

The 16 parts are suspended at two points each with steel cables.

The elements of Prebers’ spatial work Dream form a rhythmic sequence in the gable roof of the western new building hall of the Commercial Academy. They form solar protection without unnecessarily shading the air space. The mountain enters the house as a sequence of overlapping panes, but is visible from outside through the glass roof.