Article of 15 May 2020, Kitchens

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In this article I would like to remind you of the second homepage of “bausprache” from 2021: www.bausprache.at

The arrangement of immovable objects of – occasionally symbolic – significance or striking appearance presents a dense picture of history in constant movement. Serving as an example here is a still life from Münster by Ludger tom Ring the Younger dated around 1570. The arrangement has the title “Kitchen Still Life with Calf’s Head and Wedding at Cana”. It’s a typical Renaissance mealtime still life. Inspired by famous still lifes by artists ranging from the Baroque Mannerist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio all the way to the French Fauvist Henri Matisse, it gave rise to the idea behind the image motif of the bausprache.at. homepage.

Because people happen to cook very frequently, the kitchen is a place particularly prone to wear and tear. 

In contrast, a photo series was conceived on the Internet by Philipp Haselwanter along with ©Jorit Aust which stages the scenario of an artificial mess. No cooking at all here, but with a surprise guest, and at the end everything is cleared up just as it was at the start.

The kitchen objects were originally made of raw iron by Mathis Esterhazy, and because of their bausprache, i.e. their constructive vocabulary, acted as models for the kitchens designed and produced in collaboration with Axel Eggenfellner. The welding seams and grinding marks were still visible and described on demand as the bausprache – thus giving the name to the project and providing the recognition factor. The key criterion in producing numerous kitchens was the individual contact with future cooks, rather than the quantity of items in serial production. 

The new production site is the INCOMO workshop. When visiting, you can discuss your new kitchen with us over a meal together. In charge of planning and consultation: axel@eggenfellner.at, me@bausprache.at.

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