Sculpture greenhouse
Sculpture Greenhouse was an art installation in the Magdeburg Sculpture Park in Magdeburg's old town from 1996 to 2012 .
History and background
The work was created in 1996 and was given to the city by the state of Saxony-Anhalt on the occasion of the 1200th anniversary of Magdeburg in 2005 . The sculpture was created by the artists Johanna Bartl , Wieland Krause and Olaf Wegewitz . It consisted of a 4 meter high, 20 meter long and 6 meter wide frame of a greenhouse made of galvanized steel .
The greenhouse was originally part of the greenhouse facility at the Vockerode power plant , the largest greenhouse facility in the GDR , which was shut down in 1991 when the power plant was shut down and the low-cost waste heat could not be used.
While greenhouses usually shield useful plants from the effects of the environment, sculpture worked the other way round. The inside of the greenhouse framework was not mowed or otherwise processed. The greenhouse thus gave a piece of nature in the middle of the city a living space and protected this nature from being cultivated by humans. The increasing vegetation was thus part of the work of art. While 13 plant species were found on the meadow in 2005 before the sculpture was erected, according to the artist, there were already 35 plant species in 2012, including 7 woody plants. The project was accompanied by an artistic archive in which photographs, drawings, videos and other documents relating to the course of the sculpture's existence are preserved. The work thus consisted of the intellectual experiment, the natural growth and the observation of what was happening.
To the east of the greenhouse, the artist Johanna Bartl placed twelve concrete blocks, five of which were labeled Life , Norm , Work , Time and Free . They symbolized combinable elements of urban life that takes place outside the greenhouse.
In 2012, despite protests , the work was removed at the instigation of the Mayor of Magdeburg, Lutz Trümper . The greenhouse parts were dismantled and stored in the Magdeburg Art Museum. Some trees were moved by the artists in the Klosterbergegarten and in Olaf Wegewitz's plantation in Huy .
literature
- Andreas Hornemann: From so far to here , QuadratArtVerlag Magdeburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-935971-53-9 , no.12
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on the removal of the sculpture at www.process-skulptur-gewaechshaus.de, accessed on November 11, 2019
Coordinates: 52 ° 7 ′ 35.1 ″ N , 11 ° 38 ′ 17 ″ E