Francois Morellet began working with the idea of the Sphères Trames in 1962 and has since realized it in numerous sizes and contexts (see, e.g., the sculpture in Bielefeld). This spherical stainless steel sculpture was installed in Wuppertal in 1978 in front of the newly constructed Gewerbliche Schule II in Barmen. Morellet described his spherical sculpture…

In 1962, Francois Morellet began developing the Sphères Trames, a sphere formed out of latticed stainless steel tubes. The steel lattices are cut into different size circles and layered until a spherical shape emerges. In the following years, the artist created a number of variations on this concept in different sizes for indoor and outdoor…

With his minimal intervention along the facade of the Kunstmuseum Bochum, Francois Morellet managed to fundamentally change how the building is perceived at night. Blue neon lights have been mounted along the front of the building in such a way that they would form an arc, were it not for the missing section in the…

As if a curb suddenly felt summoned to a higher calling, Francois Morellet’s humorous and yet abstract and precisely constructed work surprises viewers in the park at Haus Weitmar. Using strips of concrete, the artist has outlined the four right angles formed at the intersection of two park paths. But one of these angles seems…

Francois Morellet’s sculpture has been located at the Bochum Finanzamt Süd since 2012 and consists of two identical hollow steel parts. Painted in signal red, the two segments have a square cross section and are 5 meters long and 30 cm wide on each side. One segment was installed vertically along the building facade at…

Brick outlines cut across the greenery of the Schlosspark like three precise, but restrained sketches of a circle, square, and triangle. In this way, François Morellet incorporated these three purely geometrical shapes into the otherwise soft lines of the landscaped park. This geometry is reminiscent of baroque French garden art, nodding to the fact that…

François Morellet turned the Maspernturm in Paderborn into a light artwork as his contribution to the project Lichtszenario Stadtmauer Paderborn. 7 Türme – 7 Lichter in 2003/2004. In order to raise awareness of the historical city wall, which had largely disappeared through modern urban expansion, international artists were invited to engage with the wall and…