Zwischen den Nadeln

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»The ant hill becomes a metaphor for the unknown, that which is invisible in the forest, labouring about by the millions among the countless needles at our feet. We can’t see the ants for all the ants and needles; we can’t grasp the dimensions in the microcosm of the forest floor for all the information. And the vastness of that interwoven cathedral of trees which we obviously associate with the forest
appears just as incomprehensible to us as people. At the same time, we like to forget how very dependent the trees actually are on the nourishing industriousness of this small scale.«
Guido Zehetbauer Salzer,
Vienna 2011

»Robert Staudinger comments in his own inimitable way on the forest’s overwhelming presence, its mighty inhabitants, their soft sluggishness that holds something eternal: he devotes himself to the tiniest details, brings them close to our marvelling eyes, and brings them even closer by magnifying them to a hyperreal sharpness, until every tiny particle taken by itself represents nothing but the miracle of evolution.«
ZS ART GALERIE,
Vienna 2011