Dimensions, shifts in meaning, and changes in value are illustrated in Kienzer’s work through varying scales and materializations. By incorporating matchbox-sized miniature vehicles, model-sized architectures, or toy technology, Kienzer alters scales and proportions, highlighting the relativity of meaning, interpretation, quotation, and overall context. When he casts wooden logs, rails, or brick pieces in industrial aluminum—material that rejects the heroic aesthetics of bronze or iron—their value increases. By placing oversized bases under two differently sized toy cars, which are intended to represent conceptual sculptures, he obfuscates their relationship and value. This inversion of proportions raises fundamental questions about societal norms, appreciation, and their shifts, as well as the integration of broken glass panels, fragments of industrialization, or discarded machines and their parts. The ennoblement, value, and respect for leftover materials through conceptual displacement are redefined and reconfigured here. The objects created exist through the cohesion of the individual parts that Kienzer’s art provides in a very specific manner.
