Dancing Column
Dancing Column (German: dancing column) is a sculpture by the British sculptor Tony Cragg .
location
The sculpture is located in the Waldfrieden Sculpture Park in Wuppertal, near the first exhibition hall, which was built in 2007. In the winter garden of the British Embassy in Berlin is the double sculpture called Dancing Columns .
There is a similar sculpture with the same name.
description
The double sculpture Dancing Columns (2000) is made of sandstone.
The Dancing Column (2008) is a sculpture made of Seeberger sandstone and measures 560 × 130 × 130 centimeters. The surface is not polished, but matte. A similar sculpture with the same name ( Dancing Column , 2010) measures 650 × 220 × 220 cm, and its surface is more polished than the Wuppertal variant.
The magazine Stein , a trade journal for natural stone, writes in the presentation as "Sculpture of the month":
“ The work is a layered structure and has a tension and rotation that can be felt right into the body. The column consists of lenses and discs of various strengths and diameters, which are stacked in groups and whose edges are rounded. In addition, they are offset from one another and also tilted out of the vertical axis. Some of them may have been turned or turned. The stepped axis consists of four stacks of discs and the constant setting back of the elements enables an upright column body. "
Cragg himself says of this sculpture:
“ The rhythm of stepping forward and backward keeps the column in a state of balance and lightness. The column dances between the trunks of mighty trees as if among their own kind "
history
The double sculpture, called Dancing Columns , was created by Cragg in 2000 and acquired through the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) for the Government Art Collection of the United Kingdom in July 2000; it has been there since the British Embassy in Berlin opened in July 2000 in the winter garden.
Another sculpture, Dancing Column , was made in 2008. As well as another sculpture with the same name was made by him in 2010, it was also acquired through the FOC.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Karolina Kucharska: Sculpture of the Month: Dancing Column . In: stone . February 7, 2017 ( stein-magazin.de ).
- ↑ Michael Zeller : Michael Zellers Seh-Reise (93): Tony Cragg - CulturMag . In: CulturMag . 2015 ( culturmag.de ).
- ↑ https://www.flickr.com/photos/ukingermany/4808427597/in/set-72157626118879369/
- ↑ a b c Government Art Collection - Art Work Details. (No longer available online.) In: gov.uk. www.gac.culture.gov.uk, archived from the original on October 18, 2012 ; Retrieved July 19, 2017 . 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.
- ↑ a b c Dancing Column | Commissions | Lisson Gallery. (No longer available online.) In: lissongallery.com. Archived from the original on July 28, 2017 ; accessed on July 18, 2017 . 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.
- ↑ Tony Cragg Dancing Column. In: saatchigallery.com. globalgalleryguide.saatchigallery.com, accessed July 19, 2017 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 7.7 ″ N , 7 ° 10 ′ 7 ″ E