Naturmaschine / Nature Machine
Sculptor pair Matschinsky-Denninghoff developed their own technique of shaping steel tubes over a frame and then welding them together to create larger tubes. With this method, they could bend and twist the metal in any way they pleased to create monumental works.
Of these works, the most famous is the four-part, eight-meter-tall sculpture Berlin that they erected on the median along Tauentzienstraße for the city’s 750th anniversary in 1987. What initially served as a symbol of the divided city came to represent the reunification after the fall of the wall.
The sculpture in Marl was formed using the same technique. Each of the three, ridged segments passes through a separate steel cube like a piece of thread through a cube-shaped bead. The contrast between the organically curved tubes and the severe angular geometry of the cubes is what makes the formation particularly fascinating.
Brigitte und Martin Matschinsky-Denninghoff
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Marl, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten, Creiler Platz 1