Austrian sculpture park
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The Austrian Sculpture Park is a 7 hectare park with outdoor sculptures by contemporary Austrian and international artists in Premstätten , 7 km south of the Styrian capital Graz .
The work collection of the private foundation Austrian Sculpture Park originally emerged from the Art Park around the ORF State Studio Styria, expanded to include commissioned work, purchases and loans, and was incorporated into the Styrian Universal Museum Joanneum in 2007 . The collection now includes more than 70 works by Fritz Wotruba , Franz West , Erwin Wurm , Heimo Zobernig , Michael Kienzer , Nancy Rubins , Mario Terzic and others. A list of the individual works can be found in the list of works of art in the Austrian Sculpture Park .
The ambience was designed by the Swiss landscape architect Dieter Kienast with forest ponds, lotus ponds, labyrinths and rose gardens that communicate with the art on display.
About history
The Austrian Sculpture Park developed from an initiative of the former ORF director Emil Breisach . From 1981 some sculptures stood in the park of the ORF regional studio Styria. Breisach's goal was to create an area to make the sculptures accessible to the public outside the museum.
A vacated area of the " IGS - International Garden Show 2000 " ( mountain garden and pheasant garden ) in the municipality of Premstätten was ideal for setting up the sculpture park. At the same time, the Austrian Sculpture Park private foundation was established. In cooperation with the state of Styria and companies from the private sector, Christa Steinle and Peter Weibel developed a concept for the international sculpture park, which was presented to the public in 2003, the city of Graz's year of cultural capital .
In order to ensure the existence of the park, the sculpture park was integrated into the Universalmuseum Joanneum under the direction of Elisabeth Fiedler . In addition to the permanent exhibition, there are special tours and various special events on the grounds of the Austrian Sculpture Park.
In spring 2008, the collection was expanded to include the donation Painting to Hammer a Nail in / Cross Version by Yoko Ono (2005), and in 2009 a work by the Styrian artist Hartmut Skerbisch , who died in the same year, was added. In 2010, works by Peter Sandbichler and Timm Ulrichs were presented.
To the "essence" of the sculpture park
The essence of the sculpture park is based on the interaction between sculpture and nature and the reaction to each other:
“An interrelation develops that tells a story over time and changes constantly. In the Austrian Sculpture Park, the garden as a nature designed by man and yet constantly growing corresponds to a particular degree with the sculptures exposed to the weather, which fit into the landscape or react to it. The vocabulary of contemporary sculpture ranges from abstract sculpture to everyday objects, from anthropomorphic figurations to everyday objects. The dialogue between location and sculpture is intended to make this vocabulary visible, that is, to make statements about art, but also about society, its conflicts and dreams, and create spaces for encounters. A joint work by Franz West and Otto Zitko, which vacillates between usable furniture and abstract sculpture, repeats precisely this ambivalence in its placement. Standing by the roadside, however, it is on a kind of pedestal that commands respect, refuses to use the object and refers back to abstraction. Oswald Oberhuber's sculpture on the wall refers to the fact that since Minimal Art every sculpture can not only stand on the floor, but also hang on the wall, that the sculpture is also in dialogue with the picture. The dialogue inherent in art, e.g. B. between image and space can also be expanded through a dialogue between forms of art and nature, as the comparison of the sculptures by Fritz Hartlauer and Jörg Schlick, which deal with rules of form, algorithms and growth, shows. The sculptures by Christa Sommerer and Michael Kienzer also belong to this category. Works by so-called old masters can be found on a tiered landscape facing the sky, which functions as a pantheon. This power of the place also supports the importance of Heimo Zobernig's tower at the entrance to the sculpture park or the “wheel” sculpture by Susana Solano, which seems to roll down the slope. The same applies to Werner Reiterer's sculpture, which swells up and then collapses in a hollow, Hans Kupelwieser's upholstery placed between hedges, and Peter Weibel's work, which makes the globe tangible as a suitcase. Movement machines such as cars (Erwin Wurm), ships (Michael Schuster), sails (Martin Walde) and flightless machines assembled from leftovers (Nancy Rubins) tell of the fate of the devices, of failure and standstill, hope and depression, social and technical dreams and transform the landscape into a sea or an airport. Corresponding to this, Heinz Gappmayr's references to “not yet visible” and “no longer visible” appear depending on the position of the viewer and the relationship between the visitor and the work of art increases once more in the interactive water sculpture by Jeppe Hein. The sculpture park is used as a platform to open up the dialogue horizon of contemporary sculpture and to better understand its language. "
Landfill
The Schwarzl construction waste and household waste dump from the 1960s, which has been designated as contaminated site ST29 since 2014, is located under part of the site.
literature
- Austrian Sculpture Park Private Foundation (Hrsg.): Garden of Art. Austrian sculpture park. = Art Garden. Sculpture Park Austria. Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 2006, ISBN 3-7757-1728-5 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Architects: Hermann Eisenköck , Peter Zinganel . - From: [IGS 2000, ÖAV], Magic of the Gardens , p. 12
- ^ [IGS 2000, ÖAV]: Magic of the gardens. The official exhibition catalog for the International Garden Show 2000 . Österreichischer Agrarverlag, Leopoldsdorf (Vienna-area district) 2000
- ↑ http://www.umweltbundesamt.at/umweltschutz/altlasten/altlasteninfo/altlasten/steiermark/st29 Altlast ST 29: Schwarzl landfill, Federal Environment Agency, November 2012, updated January 1, 2014, accessed December 25, 2015.
Coordinates: 46 ° 58 ′ 43.8 " N , 15 ° 25 ′ 54.6" E