ANOMALY

Out of the plumb: At first glance, the bookend "Anomaly" looks like a cube that has been cut diagonally into two identical halves. The cube with an edge length of eleven centimetres is anything but orthogonal. The side surfaces are tilted at an angle of 15 degrees to the side, so that an eponymous anomaly arises. "The geometry is simple, but still complex," Martin Mostböck summarises his design. The slight inclination gives the supports dynamics. It gives the impression that the marble heavyweights are moving at any moment. One could also say: the form in this case contrasts the materiality. A reference to cultural history should not be missing either. The two long pages of the bookends are described like stone tablets in antiquity: each with a word from the poem "Corona" by Paul Celan, which was published in the collection "Poppy and Memory". The poet could not yet suspect anything of the Covid-19 virus at the time of its creation in 1948. But lines like "It's time it's time" also fit into this time.