Horizon Field
Horizon Field is an art installation by the British artist Antony Gormley in collaboration with the Kunsthaus Bregenz .
The installation consists of 100 man-high iron men, each on a horizontal level at 2039 m above sea level. A. Höhe in the Vorarlberg Lechquellen Mountains . It is the first such project in the Alps and the largest artistic landscape intervention in Austria to date. The work covers an area of 150 square kilometers across the municipalities of Mellau , Schoppernau , Schröcken , Warth , Mittelberg , Lech , Klösterle and Dalaas .
The installation was agreed for the period August 2010 to April 2012 and its cost should amount to € 600,000.
photos
On the Kanisfluh with Lake Constance
On the Großer Widderstein with Braunarlspitze
At the Hasenfluh
Other works
Gormley took up the subject again in other contexts:
- Time Horizon 100 figures were set up in 2006 in the Archaeological Park of Scolacium on the edge of an olive grove. These figures look in different directions and therefore have a significantly different aura.
- Event Horizon 2007 31 figures were set up in London for Event Horizon . In 2010 the figurines were set up in New York City and since 2012 these figurines have been in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro .
- Another Place is an installation consisting of 100 iron figures that have been permanently erected since 2005 on the beach at the mouth of the River Mersey , on Crosby Beach north of Liverpool .
Web links
- Horizon Field on the website of the Kunsthaus Bregenz.
- The standard : observations in the mountains . Article dated July 5, 2010.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Where the wild things live in: FAZ from July 7, 2011, page R5
- ↑ Art in the High Mountains , 3sat on October 10, 2010, 13:05
- ↑ Antony Gormley TIME HORIZON Intersezioni 2. In: archive.org. January 10, 2007, archived from the original on January 10, 2007 ; Retrieved November 26, 2016 .
- ↑ Gallery Image. In: archive.org. May 14, 2014, archived from the original on May 14, 2014 ; Retrieved November 26, 2016 .