Peter Sandbichler's sculptural intervention for the main portal of the Ágnes-Heller-Haus at the University of Innsbruck explores the relationship between seeing and perceiving as the foundation of scientific thinking - it is a three-dimensional adornment consisting of basic elements that are repeated over and over. He is referring to parquet deformation as defined by the physicist Douglas R. Hofstadter. By overlapping and rotating circles, Sandbichler created a pattern of pyramids with a a diamond-shaped base in the cut surface of the arch. These unfold along the arch like a mountain range, with the segments starting out shallow near the ground and getting deeper towards the centre of the arch.
Year: 2023All Publications are in German.