À la française (encore une fois): Kreis, Quadrat und Dreieck / Circle, Square, and Triangle

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 the park was originally designed by baroque architect G. L. Pictorius to feature strict symmetry and geometry. However, W. F. Lipper’s designs were implemented instead, using the English landscape garden as a model. The conflict between these two fundamental concepts of art and nature is expressed with simultaneous restraint and tension in Morellet’s contribution to the 1987 Skulptur Projekte.

Additional information: www.lwl.org/skulptur-projekte-download/muenster/87/morell/index.htm

Further reading:
Skulptur-Projekte 1987 in Münster, eds. Klaus Bußmann and Kasper König, Cologne 1987, pp. 187–192.