The Realignment of the Nail–Tree Talisman: How Do You Restructure Form? PHASE I - 2020 - CLICK HERE
Nicola Ginzel The Realignment of the Nail–Tree Talisman: How Do You Restructure Form? PHASE I - 2020 - CLICK HERE
Good morning, printing plate!

The Palais Equitable in Vienna, Austria, is also known as the 'Stock im Eisen Platz' since a Nail–Tree Talisman from the Middle Ages is located in its exterior corner.

Nicola Ginzel The Realignment of the Nail–Tree Talisman: How Do You Restructure Form? PHASE I - 2020 - CLICK HERE
My 4 month–long ritual at dawn making frottages of the building's footprint, or rather, Vienna's Mythical Center.

Nicola Ginzel The Realignment of the Nail–Tree Talisman: How Do You Restructure Form? PHASE I - 2020 - CLICK HERE
The process of frottage using red carbon paper. Even the police came to watch.

Nicola Ginzel The Realignment of the Nail–Tree Talisman: How Do You Restructure Form? PHASE I - 2020 - CLICK HERE
An image of the floorpan. I'd always start where I left off the previous day.

Nicola Ginzel The Realignment of the Nail–Tree Talisman: How Do You Restructure Form? PHASE I - 2020 - CLICK HERE
I would place the paper horizontally with half of it on the exterior wall and the other half with its corresponding ground.

How Do You Restructure Form? No. 13, 2020
Red carbon paper frottage on Silberburg B. Handmade paper, acrylic, ink and gum arabic
38” x 25”

Photo Documentation by Leonhard Hilzensauer

Nicola Ginzel The Realignment of the Nail–Tree Talisman: How Do You Restructure Form? PHASE I - 2020 - CLICK HERE
I bought various papers like Silberburg B. Handmade Paper, Hahnemühle, Japanese Rice Papers just before the first Lockdown in March 2020.

Nicola Ginzel The Realignment of the Nail–Tree Talisman: How Do You Restructure Form? PHASE I - 2020 - CLICK HERE
Inspired by the healing properties of Citrine and its color.

Nicola Ginzel The Realignment of the Nail–Tree Talisman: How Do You Restructure Form? PHASE I - 2020 - CLICK HERE
Candle on a single frottage of Silberburg Handmade Paper

Nicola Ginzel The Realignment of the Nail–Tree Talisman: How Do You Restructure Form? PHASE I - 2020 - CLICK HERE
Tumeric

Nicola Ginzel The Realignment of the Nail–Tree Talisman: How Do You Restructure Form? PHASE I - 2020 - CLICK HERE
Citrine colored acrylic finds its way into most of the centers as an abstract shape.
Work in Progress in the 'Q21 Artist in Residency' Studio, Vienna, Austria

Nicola Ginzel The Realignment of the Nail–Tree Talisman: How Do You Restructure Form? PHASE I - 2020 - CLICK HERE
I became curious how I could layer the frottages and then how I could manipulate the red carbon lines once I was in the studio again.

Nicola Ginzel The Realignment of the Nail–Tree Talisman: How Do You Restructure Form? PHASE I - 2020 - CLICK HERE
A few weeks into the project, I began using espresso to stain the rice paper to give it an aged look like that of Indian Tantric Drawings.

Nicola Ginzel The Realignment of the Nail–Tree Talisman: How Do You Restructure Form? PHASE I - 2020 - CLICK HERE
Each time I would visit the building, I would continue working on the piece in the studio.

Nicola Ginzel The Realignment of the Nail–Tree Talisman: How Do You Restructure Form? PHASE I - 2020 - CLICK HERE 36" x 24"
'How Do You Restructure Form?' No's 38 + 39
Red carbon frottage on Shoji Rice Paper, acrylic, graphite, ink, espresso
36" x 24"

Photo Documentation by Alan Wiener

Nicola Ginzel The Realignment of the Nail–Tree Talisman: How Do You Restructure Form? PHASE I - 2020 - CLICK HERE
Each time I would make a frottage of the footprint, I would number and date it. Some works on paper have up to five or six layered frottages/ numbers.

Nicola Ginzel The Realignment of the Nail–Tree Talisman: How Do You Restructure Form? PHASE I - 2020 - CLICK HERE Layered red carbon frottage, espresso, colored pencil, pastel, gouache, ink, acrylic on Silberburg B. handmade paper
How Do You Restructure Form? Nos. 33,43,68+69
2020
Layered red carbon frottage, espresso, colored pencil, pastel, gouache, ink, acrylic on Silberburg B. handmade paper
38" x 25"

Photo Documentation by Leonhard Hilzensauer
Collection K. Moser, Berndorf, Austria

Nicola Ginzel The Realignment of the Nail–Tree Talisman: How Do You Restructure Form? PHASE I - 2020 - CLICK HERE
Me, holding a piece of carbon paper during my Open Studio at the end of my Q21 Art Residency in 2020.

Nicola Ginzel The Realignment of the Nail–Tree Talisman: How Do You Restructure Form? PHASE I - 2020 - CLICK HERE
65 Works on Paper consisting of 192 frottages from the entire footprint of the Palais Equitable. They continue to be transformed.

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