ISBN10: 3932565096, ISBN13: 9783932565090, [publisher: Edition Axel Menges Dez 1998] Neuware - Linking art and architecture is one of the great Utopias of our century. Art has been released from its traditional bonds and sees itself faced with a world that has made systems independent to the extent that a link between art and building based on the idea of unity is no longer admissible. The collapse of our world into pieces also typifies that situation of the arts looking for new orders. Now artistarchitect Johannes Peter Hölzinger, in cooperation with artists Eberhard Fiebig, Ottmar Hörl/Formalhaut, Leonardo Mosso, Norbert Müller Everling, Ansgar Nierhoff and Andreas Sobeck, working on the government buildings on the Hardthöhe in Bonn, has succeeded in creating an avantgarde landmark that shows in the interplay of the arts that the avantgarde can also work positively in a team, as Dieter Ronte, Director of the Städtisches Kunstmuseum Bonn, put it in a contribution to this book. Hölzinger links heterogeneous artistic positions in attempting an order of the different. The art in the outer areas of the complex mediates between the surroundings and the buildings. The visual signing system leads further into the centres, which are the same shape, of the existing administrative buildings, and creates something that is unmistakable there. The special structures designed by Hölzinger, an intermediate form of architecture and landscape developed from the relief, ...
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