Archive II
Other Works | 1988 - 2000
Circular-Profile-Busts 1996 - 98
Profiles of mostly art historical busts, turned into a ring shape, with facial profiles outward or inward, cement.
»Nofretete«, »Guido Mazzoni«
45 x 65 | 60 x 65
Busts called "Alter Ego" (AE) as double heads: "Diegos AE", "AE wearing hat"
51 x 41 | 50 x 40
»Doge«, »Battista Sforza«, »Mlle. Mars«, »Man with hat«
each ca. 22 x 24
Styrofoam-Columns
1994 - 98
Detail: inner profiles
Styrofoam cuboids stacked and lined up in columns, inner profiles cut out with Hot-Wire, painted fluorescent orange and pushed back in.
168 styrofoam cuboids, painted inside
à 11 x 13 x 10 | 80 x 380 x 10
84 styrofoam cuboids, painted inside
à 22 x 26 x 20 | 130 x 430 x 20
detail
Red Wall-Objects 1992 - 93
Red translucent plastic and chipboard sawn into shape, alternately layered. The parts of the chipboard visible to the side are glazed red.
100 x 157 x 34
Deep-drawn Objects 1990 - 92
Acrylic foil thermoformed by hand
Erich Franz 1991
The Concealed in the Visible
The wall-objects made of acrylic glass foil have a matte opaline front through which one can see something of the back, which is similar and, like the front, was pressed into a form with rounded off edges, pasted together with the front to form a small, cushion-like object and then painted on its outer surface in a glaze of one color - light or yellow or dark blue.
16 x 13 x 3
Thus one sees from the outside something of the colored light inside (in the dark blue objects, one even suspects something of the darkness), then something of the partly applied reddish or somewhat black color on the small, pressed-out internal forms (point-shaped or comma-shaped elevations pushed from back to front, which are mostly, though not always, complemented by analogous elevations on the back which project into the inner space of the objects).
13 x 30 x 3
Multi-layer paper, holes punched throughout. Each layer has a different formation of ink lines connecting the holes/dots.
Hole-Drawings 1990 - 92
each 21 x 28
Thin aluminum or steel sheet folded into landscape-format boxes. Holes, hole chains or slots cut or sawed. Blackened inside, painted medium gray outside.
17 x 68 x 17 | 18 x 164 x 18
Hole-Boxes 1988 - 91
Rounded shape and exposed front surface
22 x 29 x 15
Rectangular shape with volume and inscribed non-voluminous circular shape, overhanging top and bottom. Incised internal shape(s). Finish with light blue car lacquer.
71 x 76 x 11
Room-Grabber 1988 - 89
Wooden slats sawn into four narrower legs, forming a compact shape in the front part, painted.
L 325 | 295
1988 | 91
Two same glass forms and a wooden form hanging in between; each painted.
A lying window frame as a quasi-basin with water. On it free-moving floating speech-bubbles painted on foil.
1992
1988 | 91
Wall-covering graphite layer on strong backing paper; on top of it lighter gray lacquer.
Polyethylene Inlays 1999 | 2000
Polyethylene inlays with match motifs in the form of three-letter-words readable in both English and German.
21 x 29
Polyethylene Inlays 1995
each 15 x 21
The Concealed in the Visible
translated by Brigitte Kalthoff