Exhibitions
Exhibition “LACORDA02” by Hubert Kostner
Everything is Connected
LACORDA02 is part of Hubert Kostner’s most ambitious project to date, Sasmujel, created in 2019 for the Transart Festival. At an altitude of 2,400 meters, on the steep scree slopes of the Sassolungo massif, a solitary boulder measuring approximately 4 x 5 x 6 meters was wrapped in 10,500 meters of mostly recycled climbing rope.
Nearly a year later, the artist “freed” the fragment of dolomitic rock. Some of the ropes used in Sasmujel now reappear in the exhibition LACORDA02. The rope segments, laid out across the floor of the ArtSpace, resemble archaeological relics—echoes of a distant era. This dynamic floor installation is the centerpiece of the exhibition and also serves as the raw material for the other sculptures and works on display.
Since 2021, Kostner has been continuously creating new works from the Sasmujel ropes, each piece numbered chronologically by its time of production. In these sculptural works, the rope is stripped of its natural flexibility and frozen in static poses, defying gravity. Kostner often pairs them with artificial climbing holds, like those found in indoor climbing gyms.
Through its colorful, abstract visual language and formal vocabulary, LACORDA02 becomes a metaphor for the diversity of social and interpersonal bonds—tight or loose, enduring or fleeting, strong or fragile. In a broader context, the rope symbolizes the umbilical cord that connects and sustains life between nature and humanity, highlighting the responsibility humans bear in this relationship.
LACORDA02 is part of Hubert Kostner’s most ambitious project to date, Sasmujel, created in 2019 for the Transart Festival. At an altitude of 2,400 meters, on the steep scree slopes of the Sassolungo massif, a solitary boulder measuring approximately 4 x 5 x 6 meters was wrapped in 10,500 meters of mostly recycled climbing rope.
Nearly a year later, the artist “freed” the fragment of dolomitic rock. Some of the ropes used in Sasmujel now reappear in the exhibition LACORDA02. The rope segments, laid out across the floor of the ArtSpace, resemble archaeological relics—echoes of a distant era. This dynamic floor installation is the centerpiece of the exhibition and also serves as the raw material for the other sculptures and works on display.
Since 2021, Kostner has been continuously creating new works from the Sasmujel ropes, each piece numbered chronologically by its time of production. In these sculptural works, the rope is stripped of its natural flexibility and frozen in static poses, defying gravity. Kostner often pairs them with artificial climbing holds, like those found in indoor climbing gyms.
Through its colorful, abstract visual language and formal vocabulary, LACORDA02 becomes a metaphor for the diversity of social and interpersonal bonds—tight or loose, enduring or fleeting, strong or fragile. In a broader context, the rope symbolizes the umbilical cord that connects and sustains life between nature and humanity, highlighting the responsibility humans bear in this relationship.
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