Granit (Normandie) gespalten, geschnitten, geschliffen 1985 / Granite (Normandy) Split, Cut, Sanded 1985
This sculpture by Ulrich Rückriem is a permanent loan from the Westfälischer Kunstverein and has been in its new location on the museum forecourt facing Rothenburg in the immediate vicinity of the Kunstverein entrance since 2013. From 1985 until the museum café was added in 2005, it had stood in front of the museum entrance facing Domplatz. The artist preserves the stone as it was taken from the quarry but also brings out all of its characteristics. To this purpose, the stone is split, worked on, and reassembled in its original shape. The 1985 sculpture consists of a stone cuboid sawn into a total of five parts. The base alone, which is sunk 40 centimetres into the soil, weighs six tons. Rückriem placed four stelae on it that weigh between two and a half and four tons. The different treatment of the individual segments creates an interplay of rough and polished surfaces in the reassembled block of stone.
Ulrich Rückriem
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forecourt Landesmuseum and Westf. Kunstverein, Rothenburg 30, 48143 Münster