VOID Stone
While void can simply mean “empty” or “an empty space,” it can also be understood here as an imperative and invitation to the viewer. The word is chiseled out of a boulder, making it a paradox or a description of the way in which the text was created by removing the stone substance.
American Fluxus pioneer Gerorge Brecht created three VOID Stones for Münster, choosing both the stones and the installation site at random. Brecht explored Zen Buddhism intensively, a philosophy in which the concept of emptiness has central significance.
Mindfulness, complete experience of the present, and recognition of reality only become possible in the state of the emptiness of the mind.
Further reading:
Skulptur-Projekte 1987 in Münster,ed. by Klaus Bußmann and Kasper König, Cologne 1987, pp. 51–54.
George Brecht
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Münster, grassy area along Einsteinstraße