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Object description | Color photograph mounted on Dibond |
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Object category | sculpture |
Dimensions |
Objektmaß:
height: 100 cm,
width: 125 cm
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Year of acquisition | 2001 |
Inventory number | G 963/0 |
Creditline | mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Schenkung Gesellschaft der Freunde der bildenden Künste |
Rights reference | Ondák, Roman |
Further information about the person | Ondák, Roman [GND] |
Literature | Why picture now/Fotografie, Film, Video, heute |
Small, sometimes barely noticeable alterations to the doors of the house where Roman Ondák was living at the time the pictures were taken form the basis of this four-part photographic series. “Blind Door” shows a door whose handle has been removed without leaving a trace; “Descending Door” shows one that has been taken off its hinges and leant against the frame; “Retreating Door” shows another that has been dismantled and shifted into the room behind; and finally, “Submerged Door” shows a door, clearly originally from a taller frame, that has been cut down and hung in a smaller one. These apparently found and banal images turn out to have been deliberately manipulated, focusing attention on the theme of three-dimensional perception in the two-dimensional medium of photography and on the parallels between the picture framed by the camera the door framed by the doorframe. With these shifts and interventions, Ondák creates a viewing experience that calls representations of reality and its very representability into question.