Of particular significance in this work by HARTMUT BÖHM in Buchberg Castle is the impossibility of viewing the entire piece from a distance. The viewer only ever sees parts of a structure that form a whole; they stand between vertical and horizontal surfaces that belong together. The perceived and the thought appear as alternate sides of reality. The work emerges from several viewpoints in the consciousness of the recipient. It is composed of the visibility of the object and of the imagined. The result is not an object but a spatial plurality. The basic form to which the individual surfaces refer remains inaccessible; it can only be reconstructed conceptually. The concept aims at the mutual penetration of space, perception and thought. The complexity of the real is updated. In the reduction of the contingent to the elementary prerequisites of things, the viewer becomes aware of the ontological significance of geometry. The beautiful refers to the intelligible. In the work of HARTMUT BÖHM, the balance of opposites within an unlimited space emerges as a categorial structure of the visible.

(Excerpt from a text by HEINZ GAPPMAYR, in: HARTMUT BÖHM RAUMKONZEPT BUCHBERG IV, 1985)

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