NO SHOW MUSEUM

Artworks that Were Never Created by Artists Who Were Never Born, or The Color of Nothing, 2008

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Artistic treatise, 68 pages, Bielefeld 2008, out of print

Illustration: Nothing (authentic / manipulated), Ireland, 1997

Ovodrom, 2008 

Working sketch, 28 m x 18 m x 18 m, 280 cps (U/s), translucid carbon (anti-reflective), in cooperation with Lisa Lutter

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Franz Wanner presented a 28-meter-high egg to BMW as an art in construction project. The cultural management liked the reference to the racing driver Ernst Henne, who had made the brand famous in the 1920s with an egg-shaped motorcycle. Wanner recommended the progressive material "Translucid-Carbon" for the production of the monumental sculpture. The material's properties did not have to be explained to the experts, he said, because the innovative material was familiar to them from their own practice. In order not to see their competence questioned, the jury pretended to be familiar with the material. The egg was awarded the contract. Copy No. 1 was presented in an empty courtyard at the BMW IT Center in Munich. During the realization it became evident that "Translucid-Carbon" guarantees a minimization of material appearance at a rotation of 280 revolutions per second - to such an extent that the sculpture is not visible to the naked eye and cannot be detected even with elaborate measuring methods.