The Tape Košice installation made out of adhesive tape attracted children and their families

The work of art by foreign artists (the Austrian Christoph Katzler, the Croat Nikol Radeljkovic and the German Sven Jonke) attracted several young families to the University Library of the Technical University (TU) in Košice this morning. The three artists prepared their site-specific installation, which is their thirteenth to date. They have also created works of art inMoscow and Bucarest, for example.

The “Tape Košice” installation is composed of cellophane tubes which result from the layering of adhesive tape of varying widths without any additional support. The work of art was created approximately one week ago and assistants helped to install it. Around thirty to fifty kilometres of adhesive tape were used in the installation. “They are trying to create a kind of 3D graphics. They made it directly on the spot, so it cannot be reproduced. The work is also original in that the viewer himself is able to use it,” said the organiser of the exhibition.

Visitors can walk around inside the installation; weight is not an issue, it can support even heavier people. “It’s interesting, we’ve never tried anything like this before. The adults among us also tried walking around inside the installation. I felt safe there. It must have required a lot of work. Excellent, simple and yet original”, stated a visitor, Soňa, adding, “our children are obviously enjoying being inside the installation, they’ve been there for forty-five minutes already and don’t want to come out…”

The artists also make art using fishing nets, as well as adhesive tape. “They made kinds of layers which are connected by a magnet and then they put fishing net in between five levels, for example. You can get from the first level to the fifth level,” said the organiser of the exhibition. The artists are well appreciated and also create theatre sets and work in design.

The three artists have received several awards for their unique art, including the DMY Award in 2010 for their installation Tape inBerlin. They were nominated a year later for the Brit Insurance Design Award in the architecture category. The installation in itself combines spectacular theatre, a translucent country as it were, in which you can retreat and isolate yourself from the outside world.