What is striking about Pumhösl’s works on the process and structure of different manifestations of modernization is that as documentary practice based on research they are not meant to be understood as a contrast to aesthetic production or visual grammar. The artist is interested in the structures and the ideas that have ultimately radically changed the paradigms of urban planning and of the mass media…
Two stools dating from the 1930s, two pictures showing negative and positive photographs of a bronze by Henry Moore, and a black-and-white photogram of a wall with a taut line secured by nails are components in this soothing room design…