Box Engraving: TV-Tower (Berlin / Alexanderplatz), under the staircase
The phenomenon of individual world perception is the main theme of Pia
Linz's work. View Projections and a kind of cartography are her
two main strategies of world appropriation.
The Box Engravings belong to the group of View Projection
works, which she has continually developed since the mid 1990´s. While for
the two dimensional cartographic like drawings Pia Linz collects many
different perspectives from a specific place by moving, she develops the
three dimensional Box Engravings by always using a fixed
standpoint and turning around on her own axis. First, she builds a
plexiglas box construction according to her chosen architectonic or
landscape location. Then at the chosen site, she sits inside her
construction and captures with a felt marker in every direction around
herself what she sees directly in detailed drawing on the transparent inner
walls. After this, she renders the drawing permanent by engraving the lines
into the plexiglas.
In contrast to the panoramas of the 19th century, in which the observer
places himself inside the panorama, here the locked out observer views the
miniature world of the Box Engraving, from the outside. In the
pictorial reality of the Box Engraving, the distance, and thereby
the rest of the world, is always contained within the object.