Coiled wire in downtown Udine
Kerstin Garbracht:
The city of Udine in the North- East of Italy brings to mind the importance of the material steel in an art project: semi-products from the steelmakers are exhibited downtown, unprotectedly, lively, as-shaped and "open air". Coiled wire, e.g., is the cornerstone of a bank, book and fashion shops, and of the crossways of roads and pedestrian zone.
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Kerstin Garbracht:
Viewpoint by Richard Serra
Since March 26th, 2006, the roundabout near to gate 4 of Dillinger Hütte is being decorated by a new steel sculpture especially desgined by Richard Serra. Viewpoint, as the artist named his work, alludes to both the location and the close connection between the city and the steelworks. Thus, it bridges some of the various faces of the town, i.e.
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Brigitta Zeumer:
Wilfried Blum and his mystic golden bronzes
Visiting Wilfried Blum´s property in the hilly countryside near Cologne in Germany, you feel attracted not only to his studios displaying historic architecture, but also to the fairy-tale garden: from the top of a hill, between beautiful gigantic trees one discovers little streams of water flowing into small lakes.
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Kerstin Garbracht:
Siegfried Neuenhausen modelling a horse´s memory
It was exactly here in the center of Hildesheim city, close to the town hall at the entry of today´s main shopping mile where in former times the horse market was held. Trading horses, in those times, represented a pretty good source of income thus bringing prosperity to the whole town. Keeping this memory alive, the city´s corporation of traders, a private initiative asked contemporary artist Siegfried Neuenhausen to translate it into art. The result
Kerstin Garbracht:
Madeleine Dietz: Sustainability in art - treasure box earth
Madeleine Dietz is attracted by two materials, earth and steel. She likes to combine them in various manners, to ever new works of art. Some of these space installations were intended for sacral buildings or, shall we say, as a sacral building?
Titles like Treasure Box, Safe, Unlocked - Locked, May be..., she bestowed upon her sculptures simultaneously reveal and mask - or shall I better say cloud to point at the role of light
Kerstin Garbracht:
Dedicated to forging: Ulrich Schmied
Nomen est omen, as ancient Romans used to say, and this especially is true for Ulrich Schmied, whose family name denotes blacksmith. Nice idea, but a popular fallacy. With this artist, it was just the other way round. He was so attracted by the occupational image of a blacksmith that he even adopted this name. Hitting his website, you will find his personal motto "Alle Menschen müssen sterben, nur die schwarzen Schmiede nicht. Denn sie
Damascus steel - a fascinating work of art by Walter Kaune
He is an artist and an extremely peaceable person. But, when he saw a Damascus steel knive for the first time in his life, he immediately was fascinated by the beautiful appearance of this steel. ...
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