Lines of sight
Blickachsen is the name of a series of sculpture exhibitions that - since 1997 under the leadership of Galerie Scheffel and since 2013 under the direction of the Blickachsen gGmbH Foundation- is held every two years for around four months (end of May to beginning of October). The focus of the exhibition takes place in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe . In the meantime, other cities and locations in the Rhine-Main area are also participating.
The exhibition series owes its name to the view axes that the garden architect Peter-Joseph Lenné created in the Homburg spa gardens in the mid-19th century .
Line of sight 12
The twelfth edition of the Blickachsen Sculpture Biennial took place from May 26th to October 6th, 2019 in cooperation with the Sculpture Park Wanås Konst, Knislinge in Sweden, and showed sculptures in Bad Homburg, Frankfurt am Main, Bad Vilbel, Eschborn, Kronberg and Eberbach Monastery.
Line of sight 11
The sight lines 11 were from May 21 to October 1, 2017, with the support of the Museum Liaunig , Neuhaus (Carinthia) , Austria to see in Bad Homburg, in Frankfurt and the Rhine-Main area.
The opening took place on Sunday, May 21st, at 11:30 a.m. on the Schmuckplatz in the Kurpark.
The 8 exhibition locations were: Bad Homburg ( Kurpark and Schlosspark ), Bad Vilbel , Eppstein Castle , Eschborn- Niederhöchstadt , Frankfurt ( Westend Campus ), Hessenpark , Eltville ( Eberbach Monastery ) and Kronberg im Taunus .
36 artists exhibited 79 works, including the Catalan artist Jaume Plensa his cast iron sculpture "Isabella" with the dimensions 450 × 53 × 117 cm.
Line of sight 10
The lines of sight 10 found from May 31 to October 4, 2015, with the support of Middelheim Museum , Antwerp, Belgium.
The exhibition venues were Bad Homburg, Eppstein Castle, Darmstadt, Eschborn, Frankfurt, Hessenpark ( Neu-Anspach ) from April 19 to October 25, 2015: Sean Henry : The Way it Is , Saalburg Castle, Eberbach Monastery and Kronberg.
33 artists were represented with a total of 70 works at 9 locations.
Line of sight 9
The sight lines 9 found from May 26 to October 6, 2013, with support from the Fondation Maeght , Saint-Paul de Vence, France, instead. The opening was on May 26th, 2013 at 11:30 a.m. on the Schmuckplatz in the spa gardens of Bad Homburg.
94 works of art, by 37 artists, were shown at 10 different locations in the Rhine-Main area. In Bad Homburg, among many others, the bronze figure Traction avant, traction après by the French-American artist Arman was shown. The figure of the Wanderer by Sean Henry and the larger-than-life cast bronze Walking Woman by the same artist stood in front of the city's Kurhaus . The Scottish sculptor Kenny Hunter was represented for the third time with his four meter high resin figure Black Swan .
"Approaching the phenomenon of black holes" by Michael Zwingmann - Eschborn-Niederhöchstadt.
Eight sculptures by Masayuki Koorida - Limes, Feldberg-Kastell
Four sculptures by Peter Randall-Page - Limes, "Altes Jagdhaus"
Line of sight 8
The Blickachsen 8 from May 22 to October 3, 2011 and with the support of the Dutch Museum Beelden aan Zee in The Hague-Scheveningen performed. The 65 sculptures and installations could be viewed free of charge and publicly in the Bad Homburg Castle Park , in the Bad Homburg Spa Park , as well as in 3 other locations in the city. The Frankfurt RheinMain cultural fund supported the expansion to three other cities. Sculptures were also exhibited in Eschborn , Frankfurt am Main and Darmstadt . The event was under the patronage of the Hessian Prime Minister .
“Color Mix” by Dennis Oppenheim
"Nightlife" by Henk Visch
Line of sight 7
The Blickachsen 7 of 17 May to 4 October 2009 were supported by the renowned US sculptures museum Frederic Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids in Michigan performed. 38 sculptures by the following artists were shown:
"Human Structures" by Jonathan Borofsky
Sculpture “Nosotros” by Jaume Plensa
Part of Blickachsen 7 is the project “Blickachsen Rhein-Main” 2009. It is the installation “Dancing Trees” by Timm Ulrichs, each consisting of a group of three birch trees, which are invisibly mounted on rotary motors and through motion sensors on the viewer react. This installation is located in six locations in the Rhine-Main area (in addition to Bad Homburg in Weilburg , Mainz , Darmstadt , Aschaffenburg and the Main-Taunus-Kreis regional park ).
Line of sight 6
Blickachsen 6 took place from May 13th to October 9th 2007 in cooperation with the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in West Bretton, Wakefield, Great Britain. Participating artists were:
"Red Boy" by Kenny Hunter
" Large Nijinsky Hare on Anvil Point " by Barry Flannegan
"King Arthur's Court: Wizard and Parcival" by Magdalena Abakanowicz
“Ikarus” by Stephan Balkenhol
Line of sight 5
Blickachsen 5 took place from May 22nd to October 4th, 2005 in cooperation with the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen (Switzerland). Participating artists were:
Line of sight 4
Blickachsen 4 took place from May 18 to October 5, 2003 in cooperation with the Kunsthalle Mannheim . Participating artists were:
"Suspense" by Claus Bury
Line of sight 3
Blickachsen 3 took place from May 13th to October 1st 2001 in cooperation with the Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum Foundation in Duisburg . Participating artists were:
"Set piece" by Timm Ulrichs
"For Leneé" by Erwin Wortelkamp
Line of sight 2
Blickachsen 2 took place from May 30th to October 31st, 1999 in cooperation with the Glaskasten Sculpture Museum in Marl . Participating artists were:
Bruce Beasley's "Spokesman II"
Line of sight 1
Blickachsen 1 took place from May 25 to October 26, 1997 in the Bad Homburg spa gardens . Participating artists were:
| Bruce Beasley | Anthony Caro | Michael Croissant | Klaus Duschat |
| Bernhard Heiliger | Ansgar Nierhoff | Hans Steinbrenner | Hartmut Stielow |
| Bernar Venet |
Michael Croissant - "Figure"
Hartmut Stielow - "Untitled"
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Gallery Scheffel
- ↑ Article of the Frankfurter Rundschau ( Memento from January 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Blickachsen 12 - Sculptures in Bad Homburg and Frankfurt RheinMain , blickachsen.de
- ↑ Wanås Const
- ↑ Homepage Blickachsen
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento from February 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ http://www.blickachsen.de/root/index.php?page_id=167
- ↑ http://www.blickachsen.de/root/index.php?pag
- ↑ http://www.fondation-maeght.com/
- ↑ https://www.fr.de/rhein-main/hochtaunus/cdu-org26591/eine-andere-aura-11267179.html
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- ^ Bad Homburg: Sculpture exhibition Blickachsen in four cities ( Memento from May 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ www.blickachsen.de Blickachsen 5, list of participants, accessed on April 11, 2011
Coordinates: 50 ° 13 ′ 40 ″ N , 8 ° 37 ′ 30 ″ E