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In his ongoing exploration of the subject of resources and concrete, Weber is also concerned with "New Materialism", which also raises the question of the seemingly infinite availability of materials on a global scale. As the starting material for sechs komma vier [six point four], Christoph Weber chose a freshly quarried limestone weighing around 200 kg from the quarry of the LaFarge cement works in Mannersdorf at the foot of the Leitha Mountains. He determines the amount of cement that the selected limestone would have yielded and calculates that the same amount of cement can be found in 6.4 copies of the original concrete stone. This results in the absurd formality of the logic of his sculpture: A mechanically blasted and randomly fractured but seemingly natural stone is cast 6.4 times in the classical manner and, as a result of the calculation, reassembled multiple times, whereby the seams of the casting process are recognisable without being concealed - "I work with, about and against concrete".
sechs komma vier [six point four]
Christoph Weber, 2021
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Elisabeth Fiedler
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Position 80
Owner
Universalmuseum Joanneum
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Christoph Weber
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