Franz Kapfer

∗1971, Austria
lives and works in Vienna, Austria

The title of the work is Berge in Flammen (eng: mountains in flames) after the book of Gardena-born Luis Trenker about the war in the alps is a reconstruction of a den on the South small Lagazuoi between Ortisei and Cortina d'Ampezzo. Next door at the Circolo artistico e culturale he shows Die letzten Tage der Menschheit. Its form derives from a canyon in the rocky Alps. The black surface is the void between the cliffs. The protruding triangles on each side are corridors that were blasted into the rock for the war. The front side is black. The backside is covered in a collage of images from the region's history. The First World War, the bomb attacks, the negotiations, the UN treaty...

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• Biennale Gherdëina 5 | FROM HERE TO ETERNITY