Trompe-l'oeil (train)

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trompe-l'œil (Maria Bettina Cogliatti)
trompe-l'oeil
Maria Bettina Cogliatti , 1998
Acrylic on concrete wall,
210 cm × 11200 cm
Disaster bay ; train

The trompe-l'œil in Zug is a 112-meter-long color field painting created by Maria Bettina Cogliatti in 1998 on the catastrophe bay .

description

Cogliatti painted the trompe-l'œil in 1998 with acrylic paint on the concrete wall of the Zug suburban bridge . To do this, she juxtaposed three warm and two cold color fields (or vice versa). 21 color tones are set in contrast to one another in such a way that the colors run from warm yellow-orange on the side of the suburban quay to rich purple, green and red, and finally towards the Alpenquai in a cool blue. Thus, they simulate a colored daily routine . Cogliatti arranged the colored surfaces in order to create illusionistic interruptions, niches and windows in the wall and thus to create an imaginary living space, a “colorful city”.

The trompe-l'œil complements the colourfulness of the colorful suburban houses that are still standing and thus brings the sunken row of houses to new life. "The colorful reflections from the wall to the ceiling and to the floor create an aquarium feeling on hot days ..." The sequence of colors is also reminiscent of the course of the day. "The large free areas on the mural [...] form an ideal platform for various messages." “There is a place in Zug that leads straight into the soul of young people. A kind of physical Facebook [...] - the great colorful wall in the disaster bay, between Rössliwiese and Alpenquai. "

history

In the 1970s, Hans Potthof failed to paint the 112 meter concrete wall of the suburban bridge with children. In 1995, Cogliatti instructed 55 children to paint this concrete wall on behalf of the Zug school and municipal building authorities. The theme was "Living", the painting was mainly in shades of blue - allusions to the houses that were sunken in the lake there in 1887 . The wall painting was inaugurated on July 6, 1995, one day after the complete renovation of the Rigiplatz above, which is reminiscent of the same catastrophe .

After the painting had been “spoiled” several times in 1995, the city commissioned Cogliatti to redesign the wall in 1998. With the help of a flat painter and for around 140 hours, the artist implemented “her own sculptural and color visions”. Your goal was u. a., “[with] painterly means [to] fake a third dimension [...] [I] therefore gave her work the name« Trompe-l'œil »eye delusion"; for this u had to a. the dominance of the window hatches in the wall are broken. Cogliatti completed her trompe-l'œil in early August 1998.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brigitte Moser: Maria Bettina Cogliatti, trompe-l'œil . In: Art in the public space of the city of Zug . Edition Hochparterre , Zurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-909928-37-8 , p. 172 .
  2. ↑ Cécile Bühlmann (Ed.): Mis lozärn: Nine forays through Central Switzerland for women . Xanthippe Verlag , Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-905795-65-3 , pp. 106-107 .
  3. ↑ Andreas Faessler: «Looked at»: a day's course in color . In: Lucerne newspaper . July 4, 2018 ( online [accessed May 23, 2020]).
  4. ↑ Renata Cervetto: Some thoughts on Zug's art in public space . In: Art in the public space of the city of Zug . Edition Hochparterre, Zurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-909928-37-8 , p. 48 .
  5. ↑ Falco Meyer: Whispers of youth in the disaster bay . In: Zentralplus . July 16, 2015 ( online [accessed July 15, 2020]).
  6. ^ Cis: Official inauguration of the wall paintings under the suburban bridge: Vernissage for 55 young artists . In: Zuger Nachrichten . July 7, 1995.
  7. ↑ Annemarie Setz: Zug's Disaster Bay: Maria Bettina Cogliatti is again designing the quay wall . In: Neue Luzerner Zeitung . July 23, 1998.
  8. ↑ a b red .: Vorstadtbrücke: Maria Bettina Cogliatti was at work . In: Neue Luzerner Zeitung . August 13, 1998.


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