Arc de 124.5 °
Arc de 124.5 ° is an outdoor sculpture made of Corten steel by the French sculptor Bernar Venet , which was installed in Berlin-Schöneberg on the green median of the street An der Urania opposite the Urania Science Center .
The title Arc de 124.5 ° describes how many degrees the section from the full circle corresponds to the arc.
Data
- Height: 21 m
- Weight: 15 tons
- Foundation (underground): cuboid made of concrete; Weight 100 tons
- Material: Corten steel (square steel ), painted black
- Signature: ARC 124.5 °
history
The French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac inaugurated the work of art on July 2, 1987. It was a gift from France for the 750th anniversary of Berlin . Air France made a donation to finance the transport .
In the past few years, the sculpture was repeatedly damaged by smear of paint, fell into a general state of neglect and could only be seen in the winter months due to the growth of the plane trees that were planted on both sides of the sculpture on the green strip. In 2019, artists and the French Embassy protested against the neglect of the sculpture. Citizens and environmental groups protested against the felling of 8 plane trees. The Tagesspiegel calls the location a “[...] purely emergency solution, its longitudinal position on the street [is] a visual catastrophe. A sad case for art in public space. "
In 1980 Bernar Vernet created a second, very similar version of the Arc de 124.5 °, the Arc de 115.5 ° , in 1988 in a prominent place in the Jardin Albert 1 he in Nice has been installed. The arch is 19 m high.
Circular arcs in the work of Bernar Venet
From 1971 onwards, Venet had almost ceased his diverse artistic activities, for five years he mainly dealt with mathematical problems and questions of art theory and taught art and art theory at the Sorbonne . From the early 1980s, his monumental steel sculptures were created on the basis of fragments of circular arcs and ring shapes.
Venet's circular arch sculptures are staged in prominent urban planning locations in many major European cities or, like the Arc majeur in Belgium, are installed as landmarks . The Berliner Bogen, which is set up parallel to a busy street and hidden behind tall trees, is an exception here.
Web links
- The district office does not want to act rashly with the trees on the Urania berliner-woche.de, January 18, 2020
- Arc 124.5 degrees, arc 124.5 degrees; Description Sculpture in Berlin
Individual evidence
- ↑ arc 124.5 degrees, arc 124.5 °; Description Sculpture in Berlin, accessed on July 1, 2020
- ↑ Karen Noetzel: The district office does not want to act rashly with the trees on the Urania berliner-woche.de, accessed on July 1, 2020
- ↑ a b Christiane Meixner: Seidiger Stahl Der Tagesspiegel, June 29, 2017, accessed on July 1, 2020
- ↑ Jardin Albert 1 nicetourisme.com, accessed July 1, 2020
- ↑ Klaus Krämer: Bernar Venet: Monumentales in Stahl , accessed on July 1, 2020
- ↑ Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle: Artist Bernar Venet Inaugurates Arc Majeur, Europe's Largest Sculpture On A Belgian Highway [1] forbes.com, October 27, 2019, accessed on July 1, 2020
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 5.2 ″ N , 13 ° 20 ′ 49.9 ″ E