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Sabine Straub
1963 born in Cologne
lives and works in Munich
4 hoch 3, 2006
Corrugated cardboard
4 cubes, each 110 x 110 x 110 cm
(c) VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2006/2007
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Sabine Straub has chosen the trickiest location in the whole of MUSEUM RITTER for her installation—the staircase. This connecting route between the ground floor and the first storey is not an exhibition space and certainly not a classical room in a museum. But the artist sees this as precisely an invitation and a challenge. Time and again the encounter with a concrete spatial situation has formed the basis for her artistic projects. »What interests me is playing with space as volumes, its properties when confronted with people. I try to create places in my works and a give them a special note«, says the artist, who has been the prize-winner in numerous competitions for art in public buildings. She has a special talent for feeling her way into different spatial situations and finding the right artistic language to shape them.
The layout of the staircase is extreme, being less than a metre wide and at some points up to ten metres high. The space is dominated by three design elements—the square dormers overhead, the dark wooden staircase as a planar block, and the striking, expressive banister. Taking this spatial continuum, the artist has suspended four cubes of corrugated card at differing heights. Depending on where the viewer stands, these cubes are perceived differently: from the ground floor they
seem almost threatening, as if they were about to plummet to the ground; but on descending, one sees the installation from in front as a fragile, floating or dancing row. When looked at from different angles, Sabine Straub’s work oscillates between levity and gravity, seriousness and play. By combining the elements that have been given a perfect finish with a sophisticated formal conception, the sculptress has transformed functional space into a space for discovery. |
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