Author: FABIO SPINK
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BOOTSTOP
In some everyday situations, we want to keep doors open, whether to let in fresh air or to show openness and hospitality towards others. Bootstop is a door wedge made of solid wood in the shape of a boot that holds doors open in an unconventional way. Authors: Lino Gasparitsch & Fabio Spink In cooperation…
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Trophy-Design CEIF 2024
This year’s trophy for the Caritas Europa Innovation Festival 2024 was created in collaboration with Caritas Pre Work. The design with random smiles adds a touch of humor. They are seen as a positive expression and reaction to the award-winning achievements. The 12 trophies were sent to outstanding sustainable projects around the world. The trophies…
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WINDSCHATTEN
What role does the invisible “natural” force play in this alpine village shaped by both nature and humans? During the biennale of three days, each day there is a participatory live performance featuring the artists employing the wind socks to visualise the air currents. Following the artists’ demonstration, the audience are invited to experience the…
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FRACTURES
When we find processed wood in the interior, it is usually industrially sawed, planed, cut into shape, sanded and sealed with a plastic coating (varnish). But wood is a living natural material that breathes, absorbs and releases moisture, and moves in the process. Wood has its own “will to form”, which we always try to…
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LANDNAHME
Landnahme“The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling up…
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VEREIN STADTHOLZ
Stadtholz deals with the wood that comes from felled urban trees and whose value and potential have not yet been recognized. To understand how and why Stadtholz emerges, the city’s current measures for dealing with urban trees are described. In an experiment, urban wood is processed from felled urban trees and dried in the form…
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UMDREHEN
Umdrehen is a temporary installation in Vienna-Floridsdorf. Realised within the framework of the call “The Weather of Tomorrow” offered by KÖR Vienna. With the financial support of KÖR Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Wien and the City of Vienna. Fast, cheap and convenient, that is what we are used to. This is why it is so…
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ICE ON FIRE
Performative Installation during minus20degree biennal Fire and ice represent two antagonistic forces in nature and are both associated with the devastating effects of global warming. Placing a snow cube on top of a woodpile that is lit on fire, the installation is concerned with the destructive power and fragility of these two opposing elements. Wood…
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SECURITY GRID ARRANGEMENT
A temporary installation of security grids around a living tree in the city of vienna. In cooperation with Dora Medveczky
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RED FENCES, WHITE FLAGS
A tree was felled on Vordere Zollamtsstraße in front of the University of Applied Arts Vienna. We kept a part of the felled maple trunk, researched the reasons for tree cuttings in the city and made flagpoles of the wood. As a sign of need for negotiation, 13 white flags will be placed at selected…
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BOTTMINGER BANK
The Bottminger bench is made of larch and limestone as a supporting side element. The limestone is quarried and processed in the ultra-modern natural stone works of Gebr. Thomann AG. in Liesberg. The surface of the stone, similar to the fountains in Bottmingen, was needled in the style of the craftsman’s workshop. The galvanized steel…
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JURAPARK WASTE RECEPTACLE
A waste receptacle in collaboration for the Jurapark in the Swiss canton of Aargau. Apart from helping to reduce littering, it also represents an instantly recognisable common element that unites this 28-community park area. The container can be produced locally and is made of larch wood from the region, locally sourced cement, and robust metal. The park…
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about
ENFabio Spink, was born on 29.08.1991 in Heiden. He grew up in the rural and rather conservative Swiss Rheintal Valley. After his apprenticeship as a cabinetmaker, he completes his military service and gains a few more years of experience in the profession. The vocational diploma in design, which he completes in 2014, and the subsequent…
