Schräggestellte Rahmen / Slanted Frames

These Slanted Frames are made out of concrete and measure 2.3 meters tall by 5 meters wide. Lined up across the center of a large flat block, each of the five rectangular frames is made up of two squares. They are not simply placed side by side, but instead positioned one behind the other, so that the sculpture creates a dramatic spatial-perspective effect.

Only three of the five frames rest directly with one corner on the stone base, while the two outermost frames hover beyond its perimeter and project out into the surroundings. Despite the heaviness of the concrete, the arrangement and tilted position create a certain sense of instability and movement.

The Slanted Frames are frozen in a delicate balance. Or rather, they are frozen in the illusion of a delicate balance, because the sculpture could not stand upright were it not anchored into the base plate. This artistic notion of a straightforward object in unstable equilibrium is taken even further with the Floating Cube at the Clemens-Sels-Museum.

Both objects were created at the beginning of the 1970s and succinctly express Josef Neuhaus’s concept of “Concrete Art.”

Source: Skulpturen in Neuss  – Author: Dr. Christian Frommert