Coded Transition-Zones: Architecture-related Works by Marguerite Hersberger
Five fragments of a cube in black volcanic rock lie scattered in the park outside the castle Schloss Salenegg. […] Designed in 1988–89 for the entrance area of an office building in Zurich, Geteilter Würfel lost its original placement due to renovations. Since 2013, it can be found on the grounds of a wine-growing estate in rural Graubünden. […] These bodies of rock once rose from the ground in front of a facade of glass and steel and led from a public sidewalk to an insurance company’s reception desk, reinforced by yellow/white strips of light in the floor and ceiling.
Colored light spaces made of acrylic glass have been a key element of Marguerite Hersberger’s architecture-related works since the 1980s: the decade that saw the start of her engagement with built situations, which continues to this day in parallel to her exhibition activities. […] One particular property of this synthetic glass caught the artist’s attention: Unlike normal glass, acrylic glass not only concentrates incident light; it also redirects it back into the adjacent space—albeit divided into spectral colors. […] The material with which the work mainly operates is to be found primarily outside the visible framing.[…] Read more…