2019 Visit to Tabakfabrik
Tuesday, July 16th, 19:00
Tabakfabrik
Tabakfabrik: Lösehalle, Peter-Behrens-Platz 1-15, 4020 Linz (building map)
The city of Linz acquired this area in the year 2009 and the buildings, in the style of New Objectivity, have since been transformed into a hotspot for cultural and creative industries, digitalisation, start-ups and first-class events. Currently, more than 1,600 people work in around 250 companies and organisations on the site—much more than at the end of tobacco production. Starting in the year 2020, the NeuBau 3 will represent a new landmark on the site of the Tabakfabrik Linz, which will gradually form a vibrant city district with around 3,000 workplaces, hotels, educational facilities, as well as residential and shopping facilities.
Eugen Jost
The visit will include a lecture by Eugen Jost, is a Swiss artist, born in Zürich, whose work is strongly influenced by mathematics.
His early career was a technical one: after taking an apprenticeship with Siemens-Albis Telecommunications and working as a technical designer at Bobst et fils in Lausanne, he went on to Teacher Training College in Bern, later becoming a teacher and an instructor in Matten/Interlaken and Spiez.
For the past twenty-five years, he has studied and worked in the field of art, particularly pottery, sculpture, and painting. He likes to experiment with signs and numbers, letters and characters, and his preferred techniques and materials are currently acrylic colours and computer graphic. His artworks and illustrations can be found in numerous books.
Together with Peter Baptist and Carsten Miller of the University of Bayreuth he has launched the project “Everything is Number”. It resulted in art calendars, books and in an exhibition that was shown in many European Cities.
"My entire artistic life revolves around patterns, numbers, and forms. I love to play with them, interpret them, seeing in them hidden messages, and metamorphose them in endless variations. My motto is the Pythagorean motto: Alles is Zahl ("Everything is number"); it was the title of an earlier project I worked on with my good friend Peter Baptist, University of Bayreuth, back in 2008.
"I like to call my pictures playgrounds, following a statement by the Swiss Artist Max Bill: Perhaps the goal of concrete art is to develop objects for mental use, just like people created objects for material use.
"Many of my pictures are acrylics on canvas; others are computer graphics. While working on the latter my mind often is with Euclid: A point is that which has no part, a line is a breathless length. Notwithstanding that claim, Archimedes drew his broad-lined circles with his finger in the sand of Syracuse. Nowadays it is much easier to meet Euclid’s demands: with a few clicks of the mouse you can reduce the width of line to nothing – in the end there remains only a path, a so-called vector graphic that has no width."
Math+Fashion Show
The visit will also include the second Bridges Math+Fashion Show. The show will feature a stunning array of apparel and accessories from designers spanning the globe. From Fibonacci and fractals to topology and tilings, this presentation of knitwear, beadwork, origami, and more will be a feast for the eyes. More information about the Fashion Show will be available soon, on a separate page.