Der Spiegel / The Mirror

A thirty-meter-high steel frame is held upright by telescopic poles of two different lengths; nonetheless, it seems so fragile that it could swing or tip onto the gently rolling terrain at any time. However, the frame doesn’t contain a mirror as suggested by the title. Instead the main view from the street is the white, ship-like architecture of the Bielefeld Stadthalle. The horizontal structure is not the only thing that fits into this frame: the sky above it transforms it into a vertical format image that changes according to the weather and the viewer’s vantage point.
The artist has experimented with indoor and outdoor works, using a variety of media and materials. In comparison to her often lively assemblages of art and everyday materials, this sculpture is more formally reduced. Like her gate sculpture at the Universitätsbibliothek for the Münster Skulptur Projekte 1987, she incorporates the surrounding architecture as part of The Mirror.

Reference: www.bi-info.de/bielefeld/freizeit/skulptur/spiegel.htm