Within the scope of the exhibition “Diorama. Inventing Illusion,” from November 9, 2017, to January 21, 2018, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is presenting a large-scale installation by Philipp Fürhofer. With his work [dis]connect, created especially for the Schirn Rotunda, he transforms the circular building into an illusionary space, and in doing so cites the optical mechanical playhouse that Louis Daguerre opened in Paris in 1822. In this walk-through theater, stories painted on large, semitransparent canvases were set in motion using lighting and stage equipment. Fürhofer’s installation [dis]connect amounts to an accessible, three-dimensional illusionary space. It consists of two mirror ceilings positioned one above the other in line with the height of the Rotunda’s two upper stories. In addition, a forest motif based on landscape dioramas emerges from the ground-floor pillars and extends upwards along the glass
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