Monument to the five senses

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Monument to the Five Senses (Lubo Kristek)
Monument to the five senses
Lubo Kristek , 1991
sculpture
New city museum; Landsberg am Lech

Monument for the five senses is a metal sculpture by Lubo Kristek from 1991. It has been in front of the New City Museum in Landsberg am Lech since 1992. This work of art is made of hammered metal plates and pays homage to the human senses.

During this creative phase Kristek was intensely interested in intermodal perception, both in his paintings and in his happenings . The sculpture , in which he visually combined all of the senses, was created using a technique that is typical for him - from hammered and welded metal plates.

“Kristek personally welds, grinds and chisels the sculptures in the manner of a medieval artist and craftsman. His free sculptures are in many ways a surrealist parallel to the picture canvases by the Czech painter Mikuláš Medek (1926–1974), the German painter Max Ernst (1891–1976) and the Spanish painter Salvador Dalí . This is evidenced by Kristek's metal sculptures, a monument to the five senses (1991) or Der Windharfenbaum (1992). "

- Barbora Putová (2013)
New city museum with Kristek's monument to the five senses

The connected senses are reminiscent of a human face. The sculpture winds upwards, so that the work is reminiscent of a plant at the same time. The hand is open. Experiments with perception run through Kristek's entire work. In some of his actions, for example Walk with the Neurotic Fox (1975), he studied the perception and behavior of the crowd. Kristek's considerations led to the theory that a holographic image emerges in the mind of the viewer who is simultaneously exposed to stimuli of various kinds. He called this type of perception holographic perception .

This sculptural work was commissioned by Beatrix and Erich Matthees, who then donated it to the New City Museum. The sculpture was unveiled in November 1992 in the museum garden on the occasion of Kristek's retrospective solo exhibition in the New City Museum, which took place from December 12, 1992 to January 24, 1993 (on the occasion of Kristek's fiftieth birthday).

"With this, the artist reminds us every time we visit the museum that art appeals to all five senses and should be defeated with all senses."

- Thomas Goppel , Bavarian State Minister for Science, Research and the Arts (2008)

In 2015 this work of art was included in the selection of the 40 treasures of the New City Museum, which are described in the publication Treasures from the City Collections of the New City Museum Landsberg am Lech .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tzschaschel 2015, p. 80.
  2. ↑ Sven Mueller: The artistic life of the sculptor: Lubo Kristek. In: Collage: magazine for literature and graphics. No. 3, 1976, p. 30.
  3. ↑ a b Barbora Půtová: Kristek's Glyptothek in the Thayatal . VÚKU, Brno 2013, ISBN 978-80-905548-1-8 , pp. 27-28.
  4. ↑ Tzschaschel 2015, p. 80.
  5. ↑ Fischer 2019, pp. 12-14.
  6. ↑ Tzschaschel 2015, p. 81.
  7. ↑ Five senses for the city museum. In: Landsberger Tagblatt. November 17, 1992, p. 18.
  8. ↑ applause. No. 1, 1993.
  9. ↑ world art. No. 2, 1993, p. 115.
  10. ↑ Neunzert 2008, p. 3.
  11. ↑ Tzschaschel 2015.

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