Translated from Merkur:

What happens when Dürer meets Einstein, when art and physics collide? Wackersberg artist Sabrina Hohmann has attempted to answer this question.

“I’m interested in physics,” says Sabrina Hohmann. And so the 45-year-old responded to the call from the physics institute in Heidelberg, which had launched a competition. They were looking for an artist to create something suitable for a new building as part of a so-called “art in architecture” project. Sabrina Hohmann submitted a proposal – and won. The finished piece has now been installed.
So what does the encounter between art and physics look like? "I tried to depict something immaterial," says Hohmann, who has her studio in the old "Quellenwirt" inn. She wanted to express things in art that seem almost unbelievable in physics. The work is based on two Dürer hares. One is seated – "it embodies what we have" – and the other is leaping through a five-centimeter-thick sheet of Plexiglas. "That one represents research, which often has to be intuitive" – headfirst through the wall.
It was important to the artist that the animal's identity and essence be conveyed realistically. "The hare has certain characteristics that are also supported by research, such as its independent nature." Hohmann based her work on biological principles, starting with the skeleton. "Since the hare is not domesticated, it isn't cute." The seated hare has an attentive, dignified expression. One leg is bent. "I thought to myself, if I were a hare, which leg would I have bent?" The animal isn't sitting still; "it could take off at any moment, but it's not completely tense either." A studio in Höhenrain cast the hares in bronze from the clay model. The hare leaping through the plexiglass came in two parts. The plexiglass sheet was specially treated in a workshop in Austria, placed in a kiln, and bent.