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Visible KnowledgeNotes for sculpture from Barbara SzütsJürgen Raap
I. Attendorn in the southern Sauerland is an old Hanseatic city; its industry basically consists of metal processing companies because of the iron ore deposits of this region. Donating a metal sculpture as a contribution of art in the public space, is correct because this replica and its material relates with the history and economy of the city. It is also a "place-related work", because Barbara Szüts, an artist from Cologne has planned this sculpture exactly for this place, in the middle of a roundabout, when she took part and finally won the competition. The place at the "Kölner Tor" [Cologne Gate] contracts three streets, resp. seen contrary - the roundabout distributes them in different directions as there are the historical city, the industrial area and the housing estate. Such traffic planning control of automotive movement as an alternative to an intersection means the bundling of motion lines to a culmination point (circle) with a mutual distribution of the turnoffs. |
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 Photograph: Agnes Essl, 1998
Barbara Szüts The Bleiberg-born Austrian has lived in Cologne since 1986. 1981 Diploma (painting) from the Universität fur angewandte Kunst, Wien [University of Applied Art, Vienna]. Szüts creates sculptures in steel, aluminum, copper and volcanic stone, which are installed in pedestrian zones and parks of German and Austrian cities. The central term of the works, "Module", defines them as wave movements compressed into epigrams which objectively record physical processes. Corresponding to this process, her large sculptures are mostly not fixed, but instead swing and sound. Szüts also translates the module principle into her multiple edition objects: the objects chosen to be worked on function optically or acoustically according to the wave principle: light bulbs, transistor radios, mobile phones, data media etc. |
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