Sint Catharinakerk Eindhoven GLOW 2017 by Jan Sluijter

About "Sint Catharinakerk Eindhoven GLOW 2017"

by Jan Sluijter

About the artwork

St Catharinakerk Eindhoven 8. WINDOWS 'Schönes Licht tut gut...' DANIEL MARGRAF The German light artist Daniel Margraf lives and works in Berlin where he has been active as a projection artist since 1996. The Catharinakerk is at the centre of this work and plays the main role in the projection. The building does not function as a blank canvas but is totally interwoven with the interior. The neo-Gothic architecture enhances that effect. The work feeds itself, as it were: the projected images were taken from the church windows, for example. These were quite damaged during the war and were redesigned in the course of the church reconstruction between 1945 and 1961. The motifs of the church windows are brought out from inside, so that they are clearly visible to everyone. The coloured windows function as slide slides. Only when they are flooded with light do they reveal their image. Using this same principle, we project the content of the windows to three of the four outer facades, so that the stained-glass images become embedded in the structure of the building. Excerpts of biblical window images are woven into a collage; an image on which there is much to discover. It results in beauty, inexplicable and unexpected. Interacting with the classic analogue still projection, the viewer has plenty of time to let the image content work, to look around in the image, to sink into it completely and discover something new each time.