Dominik Steiger Letterfälle, text by Ferdinand Schmatz

AUTOMAT, 1992. Letterfall. Paint on transparent paper, combined with silk-screen print, 145,5 x 105 cm

REBELL, 1989. Letterfall from the 53-piece series Letterfalls published by museum in progress in cooperation with the daily newspaper Der Standard and Robert Fleck, curator for the Ferderal Ministry for education and culture, feb.1992 to jan.1993. Offset on paper, press clipping 12 x 8,8 cm. Facsimile first published in: Der Standard, Album, 1992

SUEFFISANZ, 1989. Letterfall from the 53-piece series Letterfalls published by museum in progress in cooperation with the daily newspaper Der Standard and Robert Fleck, curator for the Ferderal Ministry for education and culture, feb.1992 to jan.1993. Offset on paper, press clipping 13,2 x 8,8 cm. Facsimile first published in: Der Standard, Album, 1992

SCHRIFT(T) (script), 1989. Letterfall from the 53-piece series Letterfalls published by museum in progress in cooperation with the daily newspaper Der Standard and Robert Fleck, curator for the Ferderal Ministry for education and culture, feb.1992 to jan.1993. Offset on paper, press clipping 13,2 x 8,8 cm. Facsimile first published in: Der Standard, Album, 1992

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... the message, if it is one, becomes the medium. EINS (ONE) is the title of one of these messages which is neither title nor message since the title is already a component part of the LETTERFALLS text, that sequence of letters which from top to bottom, perhaps as an acrostic, almost retains its meaning or arrives at it (although it bids the readers eye to move downwards: ANGEL and SPORT become one).

As an acknowledgement of a kind of systematic, it nevertheless does not grow into a system, not even into that of a crossword puzzle although it flirts with its outward form. That is to say, there is no rule apart from that of probability; for instance, to latch onto some meaning by reading across and thereby to use up all the available possibilities presented by the letters and give them a new interpretation. Now and again an intact word is found, but without a stable search plan; there are no clear directions for use.
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published by Ferdinand Schmatz: "Letterfalls" by Dominik Steiger, June 1992, www.mip.at

GEIST (spirit, mind...) Letterfall, 1993. silk-screen print on canvas, acrylic paint, 150 x 105 cm

GEIST (spirit, mind...) Letterfall, 1997, pencil, printing colour, acrylic paint on paper

GEIST (spirit, mind...) Letterfall, printing colour, collage, acrylic paint and pencil on paper, 140 x 103 cm

GEIST [Letterfall], 1995. Farbradierung mit 4 Farben auf Bütten, 53,5 x 38 cm, in: Salzburger Dialoge, Mappenedition mit 5 Farbradierungen von Christian Ludwig Attersee, Günter Brus, Jürgen Messensee, Hermann Nitsch und Dominik Steiger, Galerie Heike Curtze, Wien 1995

GEIST (spirit, mind...) Letterfall-jacket, 1990, yellow paint on blue cotton fabric

Film-Still from the video AUTRE CHIEN, 1989. Colour, sound, 9 min 37 sec. Camera und performer: Dominik Steiger, scene of shooting: Dannebergplatz, Vienna