
Two hundred works that no one has ever seen...
... and will never see. Projects by Sylvia Witt.Is there a sound when a tree falls down in the forest, but nobody hears it? If someone has to hear it to
to exist, is it enough if it is heard by one living being, or must there be several or even only humans?
When is a work of art a work of art? Only when other people could perceive it? And if so - is it not enough
at the end if it's the artist alone? He's usually human too.
But the reception actually only plays a subordinate role, because by definition a work of art is the product
of artistic creation and art the result of a creative process.
25 years of secret artistic creation; on average about one additional work every six weeks, which no one ever
noticed as such. Preparations usually took considerably longer, some works were and are created over years.
Thus emerged many of the now well over 200 works in parallel.
If they were to become part of the environment, materials have always been used that are perishable, rot quickly,
and can dissolve into their components.
Many could've been discovered, or still could. But without the framing as a work of art this is unlikely. Just
like with the here shown Air Package of Christo in the Gasometer in Oberhausen 2014. without framing as
art the great work would have stayed invisible. So the role of the reception remains questionable after all.
The following pictures were mainly taken after an action, whereby care was taken that neither the place nor the
respective works are to be deciphered. If the action was repeated several times, there is only one of these
pictures here.