Lichtstele / Light Stele
One of Heinz Mack’s largest light stelae is prominently located between Kaiser-Friedrich-Halle and the park in Mönchengladbach, which is also the city where the artist lives and works. The narrow structure has a square perimeter and is roughly as tall as the surrounding trees, with its shining tip pointing up above them into the sky.
After an extensive restoration in 2011, the stele is once again capable of capturing, reflecting, and refracting the changing light of the surroundings with its countless surfaces, just as the artist had intended. For this purpose, the tall stele was clad with aluminum plates that are designed to make the sculpture look like it is moving upward. Triangles project out from the sides, giving the structure serrated edges. This turns the sculpture into a seemingly dematerialized tower of light that influences its environment just as it is shaped by the surrounding space and light conditions.
Heinz Mack
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Mönchengladbach, Bunter Garten, near Kaiser-Friedrich-Halle