Boris Podrecca

Podrecca’s work is located at the interface of architecture, sculpture and intervention in public space. This is a self-referential sculpture that mirrors its base at a height of five metres. It shows the ground plan of Austria and the four new EU neighbouring countries in 2004—the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Slovenia. The object can and should also become a place of communication and dialogue through the viewer’s presence.

BORIS PODRECCA: EU & YOU, object created on the occasion of the enlargement of the European Union in 2004

Boris Podrecca created a moving work at the interface of architecture, sculpture and intervention in public space, which he called EU & YOU, Objekt anlässlich der Erweiterung der Europäischen Union, and which has also become known as Info-Pavillon. The work has been executed as a self-communicating and interactive sculpture: Although it works as an info pavilion, neither oral nor written information are obtained there, since it is a self-referential sculpture that refers to itself with cartographic preciseness and moreover reflects itself in a laterally reversed manner.

The work consists of the ground plan map of Austria and of four of its neighbor countries, the frontiers of which appear engraved in national colors. It needs us as places of communication in order to become an interactive sculpture in its own right.

Author: Elisabeth Fiedler
Plan & Overview: Position 50
Owner: [artists' donation]
Biography: Boris Podrecca