We are happy and proud to announce a new piece of art located in the small seminar room at CeMM:

Stiegenhaus, 11 Square Albin Cachot, 75013 Paris-13E / RC01-BDJ 2018
Balsa wood, lacquer, multi-part
approx. 270 x 520 x 32 cm

The artwork is a generous gift from our befriended artist Klaus Pamminger who has already contributed a piece of art to the CeMM Brain Lounge. Until Summer 2018 the wall sculpture was part of the exhibition COLLAGE at the Fotogalerie Wien. The sculpture “Stiegenhaus” shows construction lines that Klaus Pamminger took from the film Belle de Jour (1967) derived from the staircase that Séverine Sérizy (Catherine Deneuve) climbs in order to leave her old bourgeois life behind. The concrete haptic perception and play of colors of the wall sculpture correlates with the audible click-clack of the heels of Séverine’s shoes. The complementary video VENEZ!/Come in! is available at vimeo.com/288200649.

Klaus Pamminger is a recognized Austrian artist with numerous international exhibitions as well as presentations at Film Festivals and Art Fairs. He is known for media set pieces that inscribe themselves into architecture, image fragments from cinema films that the artist collages in photographs of his living space. The artwork was inauguration with a small celebration with the artist and invited guests at CeMM on October 4, 2018.

Creativity and free-mindedness are among the key factors critical to innovative science at CeMM. Our laboratories and offices are designed to be full of light with a lot of open space for interactions, and our partnership and dialogue with artists helped to enhance the building with yet more areas of inspiration and to foster out-of-the-box thinking. The Art Façade of the CeMM building, the Brain Lounge and the Time Capsule are already highly appreciated and integral parts of CeMM’s daily life and research activities. The new wall sculpture by Klaus Pamminger in our seminar room is an additional proof of the strong and valuable relationship between art and science at CeMM. Thank you!

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