Pi Chacan
Pi-chacán is one of the Peruvian artist Fernando de la Jara created sculpture made of red Verona marble .
description
The sculpture, also known as the “stone vulva”, has been standing on the Tübingen Schnarrenberg in front of the Institute for Microbiology and Virology of the University Hospital Tübingen since 2001 . It was carved out of a 32-ton block and is 4.20 × 1.70 × 1.70 meters in size.
A narrow slot is worked into the back of the sculpture, allowing light to fall into the interior. The work of art modeled on a human vulva is intended by the artist as "a gateway to the world". He named the sculpture "Pi Chacán". Chacán means in Quechua , an indigenous language of Peru, among other things "make love".
incident
On June 20, 2014, an exchange student from the United States climbed into the sculpture's cavity and got his legs stuck. Passers-by couldn't help him and called the fire department . The rescue was quickly successful, "by hand without the use of equipment," reported the rescue workers. The climber was uninjured and the sculpture was not damaged either. The event even attracted international attention. Mayor Boris Palmer said that "even taking into account maximum adolescence fantasies " he could not imagine the course of the accident, and "having to use 22 firefighters for such a brilliant achievement causes downright mental agony."
Web links
- Homepage of the artist
- Fernando de la Jara & Chacán-Pi - Description by the artist on Bernard Perroud's weblog, January 26, 2011 (English, Spanish and German; with pictures)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 22 firefighters took him out - man was trapped in a stone vulva Schwäbisches Tagblatt tagblatt.de of June 20, 11:10 pm; Modified on June 21, 2014 at 8:24 am
- ↑ Ouch! Student stuck in stone vagina - The fire brigade in Tübingen has probably never had such a strange rescue mission: They had to free a student from a stone vagina. From Augsburger Allgemeine dated June 22, 2014.
- ↑ The Ridiculist: I'm no expert on vaginas ... on CNN June 24, 2014.
- ^ Roman Deininger: Stone vulva in Tübingen - hopelessly uptight. Süddeutsche.de , June 22, 2014, accessed July 10, 2014 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 31 '54.6 " N , 9 ° 2' 3.9" E