In his installations, Holzapfel develops labile architectures and dwellings of flexible, interlocking cardboard and paper. Huge objects of elements held together with colored polyamide threads by a type of plug-in technique are fixated in the room and harnessed together into optical spatial drawings. Along with fiberboard, Holzapfel also uses a natural fiber produced by an indigenous ethnic group in northern Argentina, the Wichi, as a provisional material. The igloo-shaped tent of net-like webbing is covered with abstract ornamentation and refers to the fruitful transfer of cultural technologies, as does the inclusion of traditional straw ropes in his reliefs. The workmanlike building method of the architectonic wooden beam constructions also quotes a classic branch of carpentry while making reference in their shapes to constructivist models of utopian architecture. The installation contains serial elements of form that first found their way into the history of sculpture in the 1960s and incorporates an exciting combination of sculpture and architecture, tradition, and the avant garde.

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