To celebrate the holiday season, the Heidi Horten Collection is presenting Manfred Erjautz’s work *Under the Weight of Light* through February 2, 2023. With his sculpture—composed of fluorescent tubes, electrical cables, and ropes—which appears to float within the museum’s architecture, the artist subverts the traditional image of the Christmas tree. The sculpture’s cool, understated quality and intense radiance simultaneously highlight its significance as a bearer of light. In the museum’s Tea Room, Erjautz is also presenting recent works under the title *Fragments of a Beauty*, which explore the concept of time at the intersection of objective measurability and subjective perception.

Clocks—both because of their physical ability to measure time and because of their aesthetic qualities—are recurring subjects in the work of artist Manfred Erjautz. In this context, the concept of time emerges at the intersection of objective measurability and subjective perception and experience.
In the work *Fragments of a Beauty*, lens-like castings in the glass dome of a pendulum clock obstruct the full view of the clock and allow only fragmentary glimpses of its movements. Despite the supposed magnification provided by the lenses, details are rendered only in a distorted manner. The interplay of reflections and refractions evolves into a symbolic counterpoint to linearly progressing time.