Built architecture is more formative and dominant in its presence than art can ever be. Nevertheless, Christiane Blattmann’s work vividly unites formal contemporary artistic approaches in the transition from sculpture to installation and is at the same time an expression of reflection on elementary questions of architecture that can be posed in the interplay between sculpture and architecture. For example, about the relationship between pictorial qualities, representationalism and the organisation of things in space, which in architecture would correspond to questions about the relationship between surface, scenography or structure. In this context, even more central and less formalistic questions are raised about the spatial-social dispositive, about spatial design as a catalyst for action for the viewer: whether in the real or the exhibition space.
— Valérie Knoll
➤ Full text: Architektur als Modell by Valérie Knoll, from: Christiane Blattmann – The City Dressed as a Lake, Textem Verlag, 2014
Built architecture is more formative and dominant in its presence than art can ever be. Nevertheless, Christiane Blattmann’s work vividly unites formal contemporary artistic approaches in the transition from sculpture to installation and is at the same time an expression of reflection on elementary questions of architecture that can be posed in the interplay between sculpture and architecture. For example, about the relationship between pictorial qualities, representationalism and the organisation of things in space, which in architecture would correspond to questions about the relationship between surface, scenography or structure. In this context, even more central and less formalistic questions are raised about the spatial-social dispositive, about spatial design as a catalyst for action for the viewer: whether in the real or the exhibition space.
— Valérie Knoll
➤ Full text: Architektur als Modell by Valérie Knoll, from: Christiane Blattmann – The City Dressed as a Lake, Textem Verlag, 2014