"447 signs" by Michael Kienzer
Since 2012 and as part of the initiative „Kunst am Bau“, the Chirurgie West-building in the area of the Landeskrankenhaus is decorated with a very special horizontal window showing letters in apparent chaos.
The horizontal window running along the façade of the surgical wing of the Landeskrankenhaus in Salzburg was created by Austrian artist Michael Kienzer. In his works, Kienzer explores elements of time, area, space and the three-dimensionality of linear forms. Especially for Salzburg, he conceived lettering in the form of quotations which have been, in some parts, overlaid, printed on plate glass by means of a screen-printing process.
The quotes themselves are from Paracelsus and pertain to art, society as well as medicine. The overlaying of letters creates three-dimensional interpretive spaces that never totally reveal or explain themselves. Rather, the observer is invited to fill in the blanks with his or her personal interpretation.
