Composing the future - Austrian pavilion at Expo Osaka

Highlights the future stemming from the past and the longstanding cooperation between Austria and Japan.

Composing the Future - Austrian pavilion at Expo Osaka: highlights the future as it stems from its rich cultural past as well as the longstanding cooperation between Austria and Japan. I am honored that my teleSHADOWportation hand-engraved lamp (in cooperation with Lobmeyr Vienna) is serving as a homage to the Austrian-Japanese designer Felice Rix Ueno in the VIP room of the pavilion.

It is interesting - and this fact was highlighted also in the speech of the Austrian Federal President Dr. Alexander Van der Bellen, who visited Expo Osaka and the Austrian Pavilion last Friday on the occasion of the Austrian Day at Expo Osaka - that Japan first participated in the EXPO about 150 years ago, precisely in Vienna in 1873. After that exposition, a wave of Japonism swept through Europe, influencing the art and culture of that time - among others, also the Austrian artist Felice Rix, who married Japanese architect Ueno and moved to Japan, influencing Japanese design and art with the Vienna Secession style.

President Alexander Van der Bellen at Expo Osaka last Friday.

I am honored to have been entrusted to pay homage to Felice Rix Ueno with teleSHADOWportation - a standing lantern of Lobmeyr Vienna upgraded with my hand-engraved shadow motif in a typical Idrija lace pattern...

...I was also entrusted to hand-engrave a limited edition of crystal pendants from Lobmeyr's Maria Theresa Chandelier, which is suspended above the Bösendorfer piano at the Welcome space of the Austrian Pavilion. I hand-engraved them with the motif of my homage to Felice Rix Ueno. Envisioned as TELE shadowPORTERS, these pendants are the keepers of light and givers of shadows - they capture the luminous essence of the magnificent Viennese Lobmeyr Baroque Chandelier while casting intricate shadows that embody the legacy of designer Felice Rix Ueno.

With Japanese pianist Moka.

I am honored as well that my SHADOWtelePORTATION, (the hand-engraved crystal from the Lobmeyr Maria Theresia Chandelier) has found its home in the office of Stefan Schnoell, deputy governor of the State of Salzburg, bringing a bit of EXPO Osaka 2025 even to Salzburg!

With Stefan Schnoell and Yoko Nakata, director and curator of the Biwako Biennale.

To get a glimpse into Austrian Pavilion at Expo Osaka 2025 see the short video on c lick.

At the reception in the Austrian Pavilion at EXPO Osaka 2025.

If you cannot come to Japan but are in Vienna, you are kindly invited to visit the Lobmeyr studio window exhibition at Salesiannergasse 9 in Vienna's third district and experience the magic of teleSHADOWportation, which fuses both shadow and light, catalyzing emotions that will teleport you back… or forward… west-north-south-east-outwards-inwards-beyond… to the place that you seek to be.

Kindly invited to visit the “teleSHADOWportation” window, especially at night, at the Lobmeyr Workshop showroom window, to see the shadow play of the teleSHADOWportation lanterns, one of which you will also recognize as being the precursor of the VIP standing lantern currently at the Austrian Pavilion at the World Expo in Osaka.

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