Le Corbusier Ronchamp: Siegrun Appelt

For more than three decades, Austrian artist Siegrun Appelt, born in 1965, has worked in the fields of media, object, photo and light art. In her project to Le Corbusier’s Chapel Notre-Dame-du-Haut in Ronchamp, Siegrun Appelt approaches the UNESCO World Heritage Site in a completely new way. Appelt’s recordings show the church space in an unseen, cut-out, concentrated way. The artist creates image compositions of greatest sensitivity and precision that illustrate the spatial structure, line and light guidance, surfaces and transitions. The pictures can be read as clues that both stand for themselves and allow the end of detail back to the whole. In a dialogical contribution, Claudia Kromrei and Otto Kapfinger illuminate the potential of photography to represent Le Corbusier’s architectural means of expression, and discuss perception and visibility of material and intangible elements of this modern icon