Black Sun Press
The sculpture Black Sun Press is the work of the sculptor Rolf Szymanski . It stands on the median of Lindenstrasse in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg . It is part of an eleven-part exhibition entitled Art - City - Space of the Berlinische Galerie , which can be seen in public space.
construction
The work consists of a sculpture with the dimensions 177 × 69 × 88.5 cm and is made of bronze . It was created between 1969 and 1973 and was placed on permanent loan from Galerie Brusberg in Lindenstrasse in 1991 .
symbolism
The Berlinische Galerie describes the sculpture as follows:
“A volcanically troubled body stands defenseless and vulnerable before us. The figure reaches out and withdraws into itself, it pulsates and breathes in overlapping and penetrating volumes. With her breasts, bulges, hanging, then everting masses, but also almost violent depressions, the emphasis is shifted upwards in baroque agitation. The person stands at an incline on narrow legs, unsteady in the room. He takes his individual experiences of burning reality into his body, confronts us in his turmoil as well as in the fullness of life, in his ephemeral architecture of sensual carnality. Shaped from earth, poured in ore. "
The sculpture thus joins a whole series of similarly designed works such as the water carrier or the Warsaw mermaid . Szymanski is reported to have the utopia of “finding that piece with a lump of material that outweighs life”.
Environment of the exhibition
Since the Berlinische Galerie cannot maintain its own sculpture garden due to lack of space , the idea arose to transform the area around the gallery into a public art space. This is intended to signal to walkers who are looking for museums such as the Jewish Museum in southern Friedrichstadt : "I'm sure I am right here."
Web links
- Entry of the sculpture on the sculpture portal in Berlin. Retrieved February 16, 2011.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jörn Merkert: ART - CITY - SPACE. An ensemble of eleven works of art between the Berlin Gallery and the Jewish Museum. Druckhaus Berlin-Mitte, Berlin 2005 ( PDF file ( Memento from October 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), sculpture folding plan of the Berlinische Galerie, accessed on February 16, 2011).
- ↑ a b Rolf Szymanski, Black Sun Press, 1969–1973. ( Memento of the original from November 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Information from the Berlinische Galerie on sculpture, accessed on February 16, 2011.
- ↑ Ingeborg Ruthe: Brockiges, humpbacked life. In: Berliner Zeitung , October 22, 2008, accessed on February 16, 2011.
- ↑ Art - City - Space between Past and Present. Information from the Berlinische Galerie on the exhibition; Retrieved February 16, 2011.
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 17.9 ″ N , 13 ° 23 ′ 48 ″ E