Vienna 1989, designed by Edgar Honetschläger, carried out by Michael Schulthes
Die Reichskrone ist die Krone der Könige und Kaiser des Heiligen Römischen Reiches seit dem Hochmittelalter. Die in ihren Grundformen aus der zweiten Hälfte des 10. Jahrhunderts stammende Krone geht auf die Erneuerung des Reichsgedankens unter Kaiser Otto I. zurück und war das wichtigste Symbol der Würde des Kaisers des Heiligen Römischen Reiches. Seitdem wird die Reichskrone neben den anderen Reichskleinodien wieder im weltlichen Teil der Schatzkammer der Wiener Hofburg ausgestellt. Bis zum Ende des Heiligen Römischen Reiches wurden die meisten Kaiser damit gekrönt.
1988 ließ Honetschläger sie als aufblasbare Skulptur fertigen…
Tokyo 2010, 100x100cm, edition of 10 + 2 E.A.
While we were shooting the film AUN near Mount Fuji, I photographed the sacred mountain from many different angles, following Hokusai’s 36 VIEWS OF MOUNT FUJI. I used a Polaroid camera, which means I had no control over the colors. Later I had the pictures scanned and 100x100cm C-printed on handmade paper. Some of the images show the Fuji cliché, others are more conceptual, e.g. One day, when we were scouting locations for the film, I discovered the exact spot where the artist who carved the sacred mountain for the back of the 1,000 yen note came from. Instead, when Mount Fuji was covered by clouds, I held up the 1000 yen note and took a polaroid…
The imperial crown is the crown of the kings and emperors of the Holy Roman Empire since the High Middle Ages. The crown, whose basic form dates from the second half of the 10th century, goes back to the renewal of the idea of empire under Emperor Otto I and was the most important symbol of the dignity of the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. Since then, the imperial crown has been exhibited again alongside the other imperial jewels in the secular part of the treasury of the Vienna Hofburg. By the end of the Holy Roman Empire, most emperors were crowned with it.
In 1988, Honetschläger had it made as an inflatable sculpture…
