Wertinvest
Tomorrow
Arnold Reinthaler
On the roof of the building at Mariahilfer Straße 1/Getreidemarkt 17, sculptor Arnold Reinthaler has installed an artistic piece that references the businesses located there. Visible are construction lines of individual letters, as drawn by the calligrapher Wolfgang Fugger in 1553, who belonged to the Swabian merchant family.
When assembled, these lines form the word TOMORROW. Executed as an installation of three-dimensional light rods, the concept of the future continuously draws and deconstructs itself until TOMORROW becomes almost entirely legible just before midnight. Writing and its medium merge into a drawing in the here and now. The ongoing exploration of the utopian concept TOMORROW makes questions about actions in the midst of the present newly negotiable.
Born in 1971 in Wels, Arnold Reinthaler lives and works in Vienna. He studied sculpture at the University of Art in Linz, at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (diploma under Bruno Gironcoli), and earned a doctorate with a cultural studies dissertation (under Thomas Macho).
In his works, Reinthaler examines systems of time measurement, placing subjective actions at the center of prolonged processes, mainly translated into stone, paper, and light media.