Short.Cut No. 90, 2019
Collage
framed
Sheet size (H x W): 36.0 x 29.0 cm
Frame size (H x W): 37.0 x 30.0 cm
unique piece
Lot number 33
Minimum bid: 900,- EUR / estimated price 1.800,- to 2.400,- EUR
Jürgen Mayer H
- I have been following and supporting the Flussbad project since its inception as an observer, then as chairman of the jury for the Holcim Award for Sustainable Architecture and as a founding member of the scientific advisory board for the Flussbad project. The strength and perseverance of the initiators and the association over the years shows how consistently this idea is working as a model for thought and an important building block for a vibrant city. The next steps towards realisation are exciting. (This text has been automatically translated with DeepL.)
- Über das Werk:
short.cuts is a continuous series of relief-like miniature collages with data protection patterns, each created within 60 minutes maximum. Data protection patterns consist of an endless sea of confusing graphic patterns. The original purpose of data protection patterns is to camouflage personal information in a global flow of communication networks. Here, data protection patterns on the interiors of envelopes, and color-printed enlarged sections of them, are combined with various materials. Spatial layers emerge from a sprawling jumble of letters, numbers, and graphic elements.
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From 2020 to 2022, during the COVID-19 pandemic, around 100 new works were created in loose succession, reigniting a series initially begun in 2001. As a kind of diary, these collages experimentally explore the layers of negotiation within envelope data protection patterns: between inside and outside, legibility and concealment, discretion and exposure. Like the paper envelopes, a building envelope is not just a functional layer—it is a layer with a climatic, technological, and aesthetic purpose, but also a precise strategy responding to questions of the transparency, delimitation, porosity, and permeability of borders. This layer is experimentally spatialized with the short.cut Data Collages and defined as a location that makes this ambivalence and its communicative aspect an actual architectural experience. - Jürgen Mayer H
- J.MAYER.H is one of the few internationally renowned contemporary studios that is simultaneously successful in architecture, art and design. Its work includes furniture and interiors for Vitra and Bisazza, spatial scenarios in Sao Paolo, Zurich, New York City and Tel Aviv, among others, and installations at the Biennales in Venice and Shenzen. He has also designed numerous buildings in Belgium, Georgia, Denmark, Germany and the USA. The office became internationally recognised above all through the 'Metropol Parasol' project in Seville. In the historic centre of the city, J.MAYER.H realised a mushroom-shaped megastructure that became the city's central public space and Seville's new landmark.
Several projects are currently under construction in Berlin, including the hybrid building Elements and the East Side Cubes office building, both on the banks of the River Spree. VoltAir, a vibrant urban building block on Alexanderplatz, has just been completed. (This text has been automatically translated with DeepL.)
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J. MAYER H. was founded by Jürgen Mayer H. in Berlin in 1996. In January 2014, Andre Santer and Hans Schneider joined as additional partners. Jürgen Mayer H. studied architecture at the University of Stuttgart, The Cooper Union New York and Princeton University. His work has been honoured with numerous international awards, including the Mies van der Rohe Prize Emerging Architecture 2003, the Winner Holcim Award Bronze 2005 for Sustainable Architecture and the 1st Prize of the Audi Urban Future Award 2010. He is also represented with projects in collections such as MoMA NY, SF MoMA, the Vitra Design Museum and The Art Institute of Chicago as well as numerous private collections. Since 1996 he has taught at various universities, including the Berlin University of the Arts, the GSD at Harvard University, the Architectural Association in London, Columbia University in New York and the University of Toronto, Canada.
