For the fundraising dinner of the Künstlerhaus Vereinigung, Markus Wintersberger – K1_ARt designs one of the ten tables in the Salon. The table is both artwork and dining table: eight guests actually sit at it – and bodies from the printer gather among them.
The starting point is the project K1_ARt – New Neighbours, New Closeness – Karl-Marx-Hof: the four ceramic figures by Josef Franz Riedl (1930) on the main façade – Physical Culture, Liberation, Enlightenment, Child Welfare – are brought back into the council housing estate as 3D AR avatars. The sculptures on the table come from this series: the four allegories as figures – Liberation, Child Welfare, Physical Culture, Enlightenment – in two independent series – shimmering violet and dark rainbow –, plus two groups of four seated figures in orange and clear light blue.
The monument leaves the façade and becomes a table neighbour. The distance between public housing and an exclusive dinner remains legible as a tension: the figures are counterparts, not decoration.
Three layers interlock: colour stays material – the violet and filament bands of the prints carry the work; coloured fields and cut edges lie on the table as flat printed elements. Light sets the scale – a single circular spot gathers print, figures and place settings into one stage; the print itself enlarges hand, chain, shoulder, drapery and face to oversize. The card is an interface – folded cardboard wedges carry each guest’s name and open the AR experiences from the Karl-Marx-Hof via QR code.
No technology on the table, no screen, no film: the table is a quiet, colourful field in the light cone. The prints remain constant – their virtual relationships change via AR. The sound stays silent; the figures’ voices are accessible individually via AR.
