Interventions in the underground carpark of the Stuttgarter Bank, 1996
12 objects made of shaped concrete casing

A bank in mid-city is seldom reachable on foot. The main entry for employees and visitors is, thus, from the underground level. You reach the brightly lit lower-level gateway from the somewhat forbidding and darker parking area. At exactly this borderline, an otherwise unspectacular spot, art steps in...  

To the supporting pillars that were already planned, other non-supporting ones have been added and all covered in the casing of the same pre-fabricated concrete. The concrete has a raw-looking, untreated surface. A texture that is often found in basements. On its surface, enigmatic, runic symbols have been engraved, the prehistoric language of numbers and ciphers that the bank uses in their modern variations.

The pillar as a weight-bearing element is made to suffer a sea-change. From out of this column's upper edges of roughly broken concrete, a capital made up of light rays rises. It makes us imagine that this basement ceiling - and with it all the bank's floors above it - are being held up by this resplendent light.