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1. INTERNATIONAL ART, SYMPOSIUM „EAST-WEST-99“, FRAUENFELD SWITZERLAND 1999.
INSTALLATION ART in LANDSCAPE. Artists from several countries had a possibility to stay in a particular landscape for a couple of days. As you can see as a result we created here installation artworks correspondingly to landscape elements of interest.
BLOW BLUE.
installation artwork in landscape - this 1 under a bridge. Facets of perception. A transparent blue-white silk dress hangs beyond the river under the bridge. Beneath under the dress a mirror stands in the river at 45 degrees angle. The river stream covers the bottom half of the mirror. The mirror seems broken into 2 parts therefore. Standing on the bridge we can view the dress hanging below from above. At the same time we can see the dress from underneath & THE SKY – the upside-down reflection in the mirror below the bridge. Broken silvery stripes – reflection of the stream in the lower (underwater) half of the mirror, shallow river, its pebbly bottom & fine murmur make up the complete picture. Silence… contemplation…
The idea also came in particular from my erstwhile urge from time to time to bend down to the ground & look from upside down. AND from my LOVE to walk high above the water & look down.
In the distance under a bridge you can see BLUE DRESS hanging under it and half of the mirror looking out of the river. The mirror was placed in the river at an angle of appr. 45 degrees, half under the water and half above.
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KAJ & GERDA.
installation artwork in landscape under a bridge (named after the characters in the fairy tale “Snow Queen” by H. C. Andersen yet as a metaphor depicting the tendencies of our times). My oil painting reminding of a frozen cosmonaut in an ice grotto represents Kay. I attached silver foil tunnel to the painting radiating it. A white & black string ladder hangs in direction from him to Gerda’s. A square of wet mould, red (passionate) & white (spiritual) roses (love) growing out of it & leaning into Kay’s (painting) direction represent Gerda. In this way I created the moment when she found him, his heart still frozen. Nobody knows the outcome… This tale is an extreme representation of our time: the intellect is overly busy solving “ice puzzles” – computer reality. This isolated intellect has become overrated while the heart is “frozen” & undervalued = emotions, feelings, intuitions etc. suppressed.
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Under the BRIDGE: "SILVER TUNNEL" ↖︎GERDA ←KAJ
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red letters say “GERDA” meaning (she is) the wet black soil with white and red roses (respectively different facets of love)
my painting, oil & mixed media on canvas. KAJ in the moment when GERDA found him.
2. MY OWN SACRED PLACE installation artwork in open space. Bern, Switzerland, 2003.
We received this task & were each one free to express it in any media. We had different materials to choose from, 1,5 hours to concentrate & look inside oneself, to create. The task was that this object would represent a kind of inner place/space (whatever was in it or however it was) where one would not let anyone in. In the middle of my installation there is a round mirror reflecting the sky… It is sky on earth! AND my eyes looking into the sky & the sky being my soul … I blow soup bubbles which float over the piece. They also belong to the whole thing. They are flouting silently, lightly, quietly & joyfully reflecting themselves in the sky/mirror. They are also me…
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Artist says:
Amazing. What an unexpected mysterious inner world…