External view
2002
Photo: Rolf Sturm
Überschreitung
Crossing/Transgression
[7-8] During the evenings of new year 2002 in the unchanged view of the gothic old town the Landshut Holy Ghost Church was changed into an architectural sculpture. The twenty arched gothic windows were lit with a shimmering blue neon light which lit the shadowy mass of the building. The lightness of the over four square hundred meters of windows of the church hall was in contrast to the substance of the tower. From its window openings shone blue ethereal flecks of light. The contrast of light and dark emphasised the immaterial effect of the blue light and the change in the view and look of this routinely seen building. From the distance it created a new view of the town buildings. The view had new targets, thoughts a new clarity, the church took on the look of a illuminated Isar steam boat.
Dagmar Pachtners "from inside out" throws a new light on local life particularly the changing relationship between art and life in the urban community also the town history and its visual culture.
Franz Niehoff. Brücken – und Grenzen. Zur Installation "Überschreitung" von Dagmar Pachtner in Heiliggeist zu Landshut, in the exhibition catalogue, Pg. 52