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Privilegium Maximum

The wall sculpture "Privilegium Maximum" is conceived as a final exaggeration of the historic forgery of the "Privilegium Maius", a document dating from 1358. Commissioned by Rudolf IV, this document illegitimately expanded the rights of sovereignty granted in the "Privilegium Minus", the founding charter of Austria signed in 1156.

In "Privilegium Maximum" Austria stakes its claim to the first moon landing, and thus to the entire satellite: here one sees the imperial coronation carriage of the Vienna Court stuck in the sand of the lunar landscape.

One should also feel free to draw associations to accusations made by various conspiracy theories questioning the authenticity of the photos depicting the American lunar rover driving across the moon's surface...

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Lunar Rover