Passionswege
Presentation
Hilda Hellström (SE) at E. Fessler Tiled Stoves
Fessler Kamine, Hilda Hellström
27.9.–5.10.2013
E. Fessler, a family business, has been dealing in stove tiles and tiled stoves for more than 200 years. Formerly purveyor to the Court, its products can be found in the Vienna Hofburg and Schönbrunn Palace. The Swedish designer Hilda Hellström now shows an installation as a poetic translation of the significance of the fireplace, which in the age of central heating has changed roles: from heating source to the provider of emotional warmth and homely atmosphere. Her archaic-looking abstract object combines fire, liquefied material and ceramic and strives to attain the archaic and mesmerising effect of central sources of heat on the human being.