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Dr. Peter Draenert about Walter Giers
Walter Giers, Age-group 1937, has in the meantime become an internationally renowned media artist, an electronic artist.
In his main work he devotes himself to the extremely aesthetic object on the wall, which offers light and sound effects, mostly in an infinite loop controlled by random-check generator.
For the internationally renowned manufacturer of designer furniture and tables DRAENERT he, for once, wanted to be distinctly "giers-tisch". He intended to invent Giers-objects as limited editions in the shape of tables, which explain themselves by an adjective1.
These new types of objects for interior design, for collectors and museums, for proprietors of art galleries and action opportunities are "giers-tisch" in the true meaning of the word, which means they are aesthetic and at the same time filled with typically Giers-electronic, which again creates pure aesthetics. In one case there are optical effects of the finest, light and picture changes, optical illusions, which repeatedly dissolve. Also he creates Melodix, melodies, which always change, when one starts to enjoy them. Explosions happen when one is threatened with falling asleep and music always starts when one is looking for diversion and relaxation.
Some tables, however, are pure diversion which were accepted as a favour to the joker or designer Giers, like the fe-tisch, the fantas-tisch or the elas-tisch.
They are tables and they are not tables, derived at from the one adjective or misunderstood joke.
And then the unique specimen "Stammtisch", no joke, also not an adjective, a grand idea of the electronic art of a Walter Giers for the topic ‘table’, namely, for a non existing table reserved for the regulars.
In short, tables, wherever one is looking: especially op-tische or akus-tische, typical Giers-tische, Phantas-tische. Many of them are unique specimens; some are as a limited edition of 6 pieces, others in a quantity of 50 pieces.
The origin of light kinetics could, most likely, be in the op-art of the early post war art und with this the whole electronic art.
The light kinetics works of Walter Giers, because of their arrangement and picture aesthetics alone, do not move away very far from the roots of the op-art. But, if he also brings up acoustics, he then moves with the certainty of a sleepwalker on the path of ancient or otherwise significant experience- archetypes.
1 Translators remark to explain to the English readers
Some adjectives in the German language have the ending "-tisch" equivalent to "-tic" in the English language. The artist took his inspirations from German adjectives with this ending, which as a noun "Tisch" is the German word for "table". This play on words can be explained but, unfortunately, not be translated.
Just one example: "op-tisch" could be read as "optic table"
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