Uomo universale (Gunther Stilling)
Uomo universale is the name of a sculpture in the middle of a roundabout in the town of Leingarten in Baden-Württemberg . It was created by Gunther Stilling .
location
The sculpture is located in the north of the city of Leingarten at the entrance to the Schluchtern district. The Stillingkreisel , a roundabout named after her , connects the northern entrance of the B 293 with Kirchhausener Straße, which leads from Leingarten to Kirchhausen . About 200 m to the south is the Guillaubey roundabout at the southern entrance of the B 293 .
The location of the sculpture is one of five places for which sculptures were created in 2007/2008 as part of a sculpture symposium in Leingarten. The Guillaubeykreisel, Viktorplatz and Simmondskreisel follow in a southerly direction and finally the Cpajakkreisel to the southeast.
Center island
The large central island is framed by a dense, almost head-high hedge made of cherry laurel bushes. The Uomo universale ( universal man ) by Gunther Stilling rises from a bed of coarse gray gravel on the grassy, steeply sloping hilltop .
Artwork
Suspended from four vertical, eight-meter-high pipes, a strange scaffolding juts into the sky, which, like a technical monument, seems to fit in well with the adjacent industrial area.
A square and a circular tire, both made of tubes, span a width of six meters between the four posts. In between there is a seemingly endless tangle of smaller and larger pipes, like all other pipes made of aluminum and 5 cm thick. Only if you look a long time, as in a game of deception, one of a man, as his limbs like in gymnastics with a recognized figure Rhönrad reach out to the side and rest against the tire. One feels reminded of the popular drawing by Leonardo da Vinci with the so-called Vitruvian man , which shows the proportions of the human figure according to the theory of the Roman architect Vitruvius .
Center island
Frontal view
Side view
Explanation board
Leonardo da Vinci: Vitruvian Man
Artist
The pictorial theme of the Serbian-born sculptor Gunther Stilling from Leingarten's neighboring town Güglingen , who was born in 1943 , is fragmented human figures who, in their warlike masquerade, look like soldiers from ancient Greece, and who, squeezed into their armor, have only minimal scope for development. Due to the given low budget, Stilling decided to create his Uomo universale, completely different from his other works, from prefabricated aluminum tubes "off the shelf". The monumental sculpture shows an individual who is locked in an opaque network of unpredictable influences, entanglements and connections. The arrows of fate patter on him from all sides, leaving deep wounds if he does not manage to ward them off in time. But he also shoots his arrows, which usually find their target in a tight circle and rarely break through.
history
If you leave the A6 motorway at the Bad Rappenau exit and take the B39 in the direction of Leingarten, you will first pass through the Heilbronn district of Kirchhausen and then take the Kirchhausener Straße to Leingarten. This street - and in its extension the Eppinger and Heilbronner Strasse - turns out to be a sculpture trail of international standing. Five large-format objects line the path, a metal sculpture and four stone or marble sculptures. Each of the works of art has its very own and unmistakable character.
Gunther Stilling uses aluminum pipes to reproduce the Vitruvian man who is known from Leonardo da Vinci's drawing. When the "furnishing" of four roundabouts and a street corner was due in 2007, the Mayor of Leingarten, Ralf Steinbrenner, turned to two local artists, the sculptor and painter Gunther Stilling from the neighboring town of Güglingen and the Heilbronn graphic designer Peter Friedel for advice. A solution was to be found that would not only shape the townscape, but would also give Leingarten a face and shape inwards.
The two artists proposed a sculpture symposium and were able to win artist friends from the Tuscan marble town of Pietrasanta (where Stilling also has a studio). From June 30th to July 22nd, an international sculptor symposium was held in Leingarten under the name Kunst - Raum - Kreisel , in which five artists took part. In a permanent open air, they created their works of art in the open air, in the middle of the city and with great interest from the population, which, with the exception of Stilling's work, were put up in the designated places after the symposium; the latter was only set up in 2008. The resulting sculpture path consists of four roundabouts and a square at the corner of a street junction.
literature
- Art - Space - Spinning Top: Sculpture Symposium in Leingarten . In: Die Gemeinde (BWGZ) , 21.2007, page 878
- Reto Bosch: The art of gyroscopes has to give way . In: Voice.de of December 28, 2012, only online: [1] .
- Peer Friedel; Alexander Bertsch: Art in a Circle. A photo documentation of the International Sculptor Symposium in Summer 2007 in Leingarten , Heidelberg 2007
Coordinates: 49 ° 9 '2.81 " N , 9 ° 6' 59.79" E