Levitation, 2014 – Thilo Frank x Phillip C. Reiner

In 2014 Levitation, a black polyhedron hung in the gallery at Kunstraum Dornbirn, a collaboration between Thilo Frank and Phillip C. Reiner. The form was suspended from ceiling cables and finished in black powder coat, so it read as silhouette and edge more than mass. It was a walk-in installation: visitors met it from below, at eye level, and from the gallery's upper floor, moving beneath and around it. Suspended at a calculated height and orientation it holds a contradiction in view, heavy material apparently weightless, a static form that seems ready to move. Frank's idea sets material against the expectation of gravity, Reiner designed and built the complex spatial geometry and the suspension that keeps it steady at that scale. A catalogue, Thilo Frank – Levitation, was published by Verlag fuer Moderne Kunst Nuernberg in 2014.