Gert von Bassewitz

Tribute

Exhibition

ATMOSPHERE: AN ILLUSTRATION OF A FAILED NEW THEORETICAL CONCEPT

Hermann Czech

26.9.–5.10.2014

Hermann Czech’s restaurant rooms of 1984 in the basement of Hildebrandt’s and Fischer’s Palais Schwarzenberg encroach upon the sphere of subjective impression, or “atmosphere”, which was not always applauded by the specialists.

But “atmosphere” cannot be the intention behind a design. It belongs to after-perception. After thirty years, there is an added effect produced by the interval of time. Lately, the rooms have remained unused and neglected. Atmosphere as such is not producible. (Czech)

In this effect of double distance now they become subject to an artistic (Heinz Frank) and architectural (Hermann Czech) intervention.