OUT SITE_03 - Peter Sandbichler

Date: Oct 10 to Jan 24
Venue: MQ Court  8
Opening: Thu, Oct 15
Curator: Edelbert Köb

Peter Sandbichler, born in Kufstein in 1964, oscillates in his sculptures between plane surface and three-dimensionality, between image and sculpture. For OUT SITE he has designed two politically connotated works.

The project in the interior courtyard of the MQ shows a continuation of his tiger_stealth, 2009, a boat, undetectable by radar, which he developed in 2006 with the artists\' group Knowbotic Research. The project was sparked off by the discovery of a short propaganda video of the Tamil Liberation Army on the Internet, an heroic interpretation produced with simple film media of a speedboat allegedly financed by North Korea. In form it is deliberately based on the American stealth bomber F117. Sandbichler re-transposed the video rendering of the stealth myth now circulating for decades into a material version and, using simple means, built a \'stealthboat\' that is undetectable by sport and sailing-boat radar. Its characteristic form is determined by a geometric calculation, the so-called \'stealth angle\', which specifies the orientation of a surface in which incident radar waves are not reflected.

For OUT SITE, Peter Sandbichler alludes to this myth and the idea of camouflage, constructing another fake based on the fabulous and mystifying warfare technology of stealth vehicles with their \"magic cap\" of invisibility. A stealthboat is stranded in the interior courtyard of the MQ, scarcely visible, in camouflage style, in lifting off from the grid pattern of the paving.

Complementing this is a wooden tower construction, eight metres high, on the forecourt of the MQ, incorporating the portrait of Lasantha Wickrematunge, a journalist and peace activist from Sri Lanka who was murdered in 2009.

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© Peter Sandbichler