Relief II

Created a few years after Karl Hartung’s first relief along the facade of the WDR building, the second revisits the theme of the serial variation. At a length of roughly 93 meters, eleven cloud-shaped marble reliefs of different heights and sizes are incorporated into the facade at varying intervals. In this way, they appear to be drifting casually along the wall. Their net-like protrusions seem to emerge from inside the wall. It is as if an organic structure, comparable to coral, were pushing itself out through a light layer of silk fabric.

While Hartung’s first relief was characterized by geometry and rigidity, this work follows it with a rhythmic, melodic sequence that reproduces natural processes.

Reference: http://m.skulpturenfuehrer.de/de/skulpturenfuehrer-koeln/ort/relief-ii