Wotruba

Thomas Draschan devoted his experimental film to Vienna´s Church of the Most Holy Trinity, doing it with a fairly skilful translation of the visual motif. Draschan constructed his work of individual images, joining into a narrative. The assemblage of photographs places the focus on the temporal aspect and therefore the construction of reality. Above all, Draschan reveals in this way the artistic and architectural philosophy underlying this building, which Fritz Wotruba conceived and built from 1974 to 1976 with the architect Fritz Gerhard Mayr. Designed as a walk-in sculpture comprising individual blocks, the church´s form was intended to open...