Another successful day

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A new successful day , also popularly known as a tie man , is the title of a sculpture that shows a young businessman in black suit trousers and a white shirt on a concrete base in a handstand pose with a tie and a briefcase. The work of art is in Wuppertal in the Elberfeld district on the so-called Kasinokreisel , the area between Herzogstraße , Friedrich-Ebert-Straße and Kasinostraße . The artwork was made by the Belgian concept artist Guillaume Bijl and displayed here in 2008.

History and description

Another successful day in 2008. The stolen tie and briefcase are missing.

In December 2007, the “Art, Culture and Social Foundation” of Sparda-Bank West presented the city of Wuppertal with a sculpture by the Belgian artist Guillaume Bijl worth 100,000 as part of their “Sculpture in Public Space” competition and the “Third Art Prize for North Rhine-Westphalia” Euro. A free space created on the casino roundabout after traffic engineering measures was offered as the installation site , which the public perceived with its dark, empty asphalt as a “black spot”.

Bijl's work shows a young businessman doing a handstand. One cannot see its nature in the bronze picture; the figure appears clothed due to its color design. The exhibit was lined with a square rose bed when it was inaugurated on August 22, 2008. With a height of two meters, the work of art stands on a 1.4 meter high, massive base and has a weight of 220 kg.

According to Bijl, the sculpture should be viewed humorous and intentionally kitsch, a magazine photo served as an idea. In his design, however, he was also inspired by the surrounding bank buildings. The figure "clearly represents a banker who made a lot of money that day." The artist's works often deal with topics related to leisure and consumer society and embody ironic criticism of modern life.

reception

With tie and briefcase

The public reactions to the work of art and to the newly designed square were mixed.

The shown banker enters into an allusive relationship with his immediate spatial environment of several financial institutions, the tax office and internationally operating companies, and at this location he seems like an ironic commentary on the financial crisis from 2007 . Guillaume Bijl had created his work with a view to the public space occupied in this way and was based on the dominant geometric shapes of the surrounding buildings and the Else Lasker Schüler memorial in Herzogstraße.

The use of the space around the sculpture for further design measures was discussed controversially. In 2010, the Elberfeld district council fought heatedly for the installation of the words “I am in love with my city” by the Wuppertal poet Else Lasker-Schüler in the form of a spiral on the adjacent intersection. Representatives of the Von der Heydt Museum demanded a “ban mile” around the work of art so as not to disturb the overall artistic composition. The city's cultural administration awarded Bijl's sculpture the “design authority” for its surroundings.

In addition to painting the base with inscriptions rich in references and meaningless, strangers for the first time removed the bronze tie hanging from the handstand man's neck in early September 2008. The successor models also disappeared. At times, passers-by provided the figure with real ties, which earned the figure the nickname “Tie Man”.

The 60 kg bronze case stolen from the figure was replaced in January 2015 at a cost of 5,000 euros, but it disappeared again in mid-October 2015. The donating bank offered a finder's fee of 500 euros for the bronze case. In the summer of 2016, the missing piece was replaced by a case made of epoxy resin with a cast steel structure. Unknown people smeared the work of art with red stripes in mid-November 2016; the damage was later painted over.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stefan Melneczuk: Fresh art on the black spot . In: Westdeutsche Zeitung of December 11, 2007
  2. ^ A b Michael Okroy: Points of contention. 20 controversies from politics, history and culture in Wuppertal. Old Synagogue Wuppertal, Wuppertal 2011. p. 39.
  3. ↑ a b Another successful day. The "tie man" at the casino top has been a central feature of the square since August 2008 . In: Döppersberg Journal 01/2016, p. 7
  4. ↑ Moritz Stanarius: "A new successful day" at the casino roundabout . In: Westdeutsche Zeitung of August 23, 2008
  5. ↑ a b Bernd Groten: Successful day in Elberfeld . In: denkmalplatz.de from April 25, 2015
  6. ↑ Manfred Görgens: Ban mile around banker sculpture on the Black Spot in Elberfeld? In: Westdeutsche Zeitung of December 9, 2008
  7. ↑ Manfred Görgens: Glossary: ​​From the tie of the return . In: Westdeutsche Zeitung of October 12, 2009
  8. ^ Tie man with suitcase again . ( Memento from September 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) In: Wuppertal total from June 24, 2016
  9. ↑ Finder's reward for a bronze suitcase . In: Stadtzeitung Wuppertal from October 2015.
  10. ^ Anne Grages: The tie man has a new suitcase . In: Westdeutsche Zeitung of June 23, 2016
  11. ↑ "Tie Man" is cleaned up. In: Solinger Tageblatt of December 10, 2016.

Coordinates: 51 ° 15 '24.8 "  N , 7 ° 8' 30.9"  E