Utopia in stone
Utopia in Stone is a sculpture by the French sculptor Christiane Guillaubey . It is located on a traffic roundabout in Leingarten .
location
The Guillaubeykreisel is in the north of the city of Leingarten :
The western arm of the four-armed roundabout leads to the Augelbaum residential area and the eastern branch to the southern entrance of the B293 federal road . |
The Guillaubey roundabout is one of five roundabouts or places for which sculptures were created in 2007/2008 as part of a sculpture symposium in Leingarten. A little further north is the Stillingkreisel, to the south follow Viktorplatz and Simmondskreisel and to the southeast the Cpajakkreisel.
Center island
The large, grass-covered central island rises from the roadway in a steep embankment and levels out the sloping terrain at this point, so that a horizontal platform is created. This serves as a presentation plate for the sculpture "Utopia in Stone" by Christiane Guillaubey , which is enthroned on a rectangular concrete slab in the middle of the platform, unmistakably for those passing by.
Artwork
From a distance, the work of art does not look like a sculpture, but rather like menhirs or boulders that have been set up and placed in a certain order on the pedestal of the center island. On closer inspection (you have to venture across the roadway to the center island), however, you can see the intervention of the human hand. The sculpture “Utopia in Stone” is the work of the French sculptor Christiane Guillaubey (pronounced: gijoobee), who lives in Lyon.
The table-like or gate-like structure looks like a dolmen and the cuboid standing next to it looks like a menhir cut off at the top .
The “dolmen” consists of two short, clumsy cuboids, which are used as storage for a third, transverse sandstone block. The two cuboids and the single standing "menhir" retained the marbling and the fine color nuances of the natural stone on the unprocessed surfaces, but had to accept "injuries" in many places from the sculptor's chisel. Slits, crevices, notches, grooves, furrows and chipped edges reveal the hand of the artist everywhere. In some places, hewn, smooth-walled, small cuboids grow out, leaving the impression of a work that has just started and is still awaiting completion. The fall over the two cuboids, not unlike a turnip or a thick club, is covered over and over with cross-grooves and only shows the original surface of the stone in a few places.
Center island
"Menhir"
"Dolmen"
Explanation board
For comparison: Crucuno dolmen in Plouharnel in Brittany
artist
Christiane Guillaubey was born in Lyon in 1949, where she also lives and works. After completing her studies in sculpture in 1970 at the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, she has since worked mainly as a freelance sculptor.
For the city of Lyon, she created monuments for the Lyon-born writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and for Jean Moulin , a member of the Resistance who operated from Lyon during World War II . In Kaiserslautern you can visit a three-part marble sculpture on Carlo-Schmid-Straße, which Guillaubey created in 1987 as part of the international Steinhauer Symposium in the university residential area.
history
See Stilling Top, story .
literature
- Art - Space - Spinning Top: Sculpture Symposium in Leingarten . In: Die Gemeinde (BWGZ) , 21.2007, page 878.
- Peer Friedel, Alexander Bertsch: Art in a circle. A photo documentation of the International Sculptor Symposium in Summer 2007 in Leingarten , Heidelberg 2007.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 8 '55.93 " N , 9 ° 7' 2.23" E