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Ich oder das Chaos
Franz Kapfer

wood, varnish, light bulp
500 × 210 × 5 cm
2015

Acquisition 2016
Inv. No. 0312
on loan

This large-scale installation, created in 2018, is the first work by Franz Kapfer in the EVN headquater. The artist, born in 1971 in Fürstenfeld, deals with symbols and structures of power in his work. The starting point of Ich oder das Chaos is ornamentation from a gate at the Louvre. The former royal palace was opened to the public as a museum in 1773 and further expanded under Napoleon Bonaparte. Franz Kapfer transfers Napoleonic symbols (lightning, bees, eagle, “N”) onto plywood panels and detaches them from the building as ornaments in a new context. As signs, they clarify the powerful visual representation of Bonaparte.

evn collection, 2018 (translation: Virginia Dellenbaugh)