Kein leichtes Spiel / No Easy Game

The title of the work No Easy Game can initially be seen as a clear reference to its materiality: a rectangle was cut out of a 64-ton steel wall, so that the remaining outline created a large portal. The rectangle was then cut down into two smaller gates, from which two additional steel rectangles were cut.
The artist arranged these five elements at a distance from the trail, inviting the viewer to step through the gates, relate to the structures, mentally combine them and then take them apart again. The thoughtful overall composition is designed in such a way that – despite the appearance of being a random grouping – it creates an impression of openness and boundless freedom.
In this way, passersby can consider all different perspectives. The result is a play of thoughts and feelings that is also No Easy Game for the viewer. Nonetheless, engaging with the sculpture is worth the challenge: in addition to the spatial experience it creates, the work also makes reference to the region’s complex divisions – the opening of previously closed gates and borders that must now be overcome and passed through.

Reference: www.waldskulpturenweg.de/skulpturen/kein-leichtes-spiel/die-skulptur
Further reading: WaldSkulpturenWeg, ed. by the Arbeitsgemeinschaft WaldSkulpturenWeg, texts by Uwe Rüth, Cologne 2011.