1500sqm facade painting

Design: Klaus Rinke
Project Development and Production: Joachim Eckl
By order of Unibail-Rodamco

August 2010

Donauzentrum/Vienna

The facade paintings with the drops work as a „background picture“ that only reacts like an echo to the monumental sculpture ensemble by Klaus Rinke which is going to be installed in the future.

The existing facade is part of the big art-ensemble of 60 NIROSTA drops on rods and a monumental 38m high sunbeam. Like an obelisk which catches the first and last sunray of the day with its gilded top, the idea of this sculpture is to create a permanent link between the sun and a place on earth. Thus we take the never setting sun to the 22. District in Vienna and install a landmark as a point of reference to the Wagramerstraße/Donaustadtstraße.

The NIROSTA drops and the painted sea of drops on the façade make the connection of sun and run comprehensible. The climate as a major subject is important to all people of the world.

The original power of the symbols “drops and sunbeam” is impressive and opens a wide scope of interpretation. A piece of art wants to be and also can be only an impulse generator for the perception of the people. Its monumental form and the used original symbols provoke an individual process of creating meaning and sense. Provoking means creating. A piece of art provokes the dialogue with itself, with the presented. This dialogue happens on different levels – depending on the viewer. Much more important seems the fact that the thousands of people visiting the Donauzentrum stocking up on their food get a kind of cultural food for their existence through this piece of art.