Wedge (Minden)
The wedge in the East Westphalian city of Minden is an accessible sculpture on Martiniplatz, which was installed there in 1987 by the artist Wilfried Hagebölling . In 1988 the city of Minden bought the sculpture.
history
The Martinikirchplatz is located in the Upper Old Town, surrounded by listed houses, which are characterized on the one hand by strict Prussian architecture with straight lines and buildings made of Porta sandstone (army bakery, provisions store , Martini church ) and on the other hand by half-timbered houses from the Middle Ages. On this square, paved with different pavement, which is now used as a parking lot and weekly marketplace, Hagebölling places his walkable sculpture, “which - in dialogue with the transverse gables of the Romanesque-Gothic Martini church - tightens and sharpens the area. An exact reference to the environment that is not decorated, but charges with a dynamic of correspondence and dissonance. "
The sculpture is welded from four-meter-high, accessible Corten steel plates and untreated, so that a protective layer of rust has developed on the surface . The four plates form a wedge segment with trapezoidal openings at the end.
The wedge was created on behalf of and within the framework of the project week “Culture on site”, Landeskulturtage NRW 1987 and was also set up in this campaign. The city of Minden bought it in 1988 and took it over as its property.
In the following time a public discussion about the wedge began, in which parts of the population advocated the removal of the so-called scrap piece. In the beginning of the local election campaign, the CDU campaigned for the sculpture to be relocated and offered the artist a new location in Minden's Glacis . The CDU wanted to implement this election promise after winning the local election. Thereupon a legal dispute developed between the defending artist against the city of Minden, in which the artist invoked his copyright and the correspondence between his art and the original installation site. This led to statements such as Michael Vesper, the Minister for Urban Development of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, and the former director of the Documenta in Kassel, who argued that the work of art should remain in the public space at its original location. In the end, the Hamm Higher Regional Court decided that the figure had to remain on the field.
Todays situation
Today the sculpture is still on Martiniplatz, repeatedly used as an object by graffiti artists and surrounded by bicycle stands and traffic furniture.
Web links
- Art Magazin 7/2001: A plea against art
- Mindener Tageblatt: Special supplement: The Keilstück controversy ( Memento from December 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Quotation from "The Taliban of NRW", Dr. Manfred Schneckenburger in taz, the daily newspaper July 3, 2001
- ↑ Mindener Tageblatt: Provided debate with the wedge. Edition of June 9, 2011, accessed December 13, 2012
- ↑ Die Welt: Keilstück May Be Scrapped Edition of February 12, 2001, accessed on December 13, 2012
- ^ New Osnabrücker Zeitung: Keilstück may remain Issue of June 13, 2001, accessed on December 13, 2012
- ^ Judgment of the Hamm Higher Regional Court on the removal of the wedge, accessed in December 2012