{"id":26864,"date":"2017-06-30T13:17:26","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T11:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nrw-skulptur.net\/route\/spaziergang-muenster\/"},"modified":"2018-05-13T21:48:02","modified_gmt":"2018-05-13T19:48:02","slug":"spaziergang-muenster","status":"publish","type":"sculpture_maps","link":"https:\/\/nrw-skulptur.net\/en\/route\/spaziergang-muenster\/","title":{"rendered":"M\u00fcnster Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

This sculpture route is best explored by foot, since bicycling is not permitted in certain sections. It leads westward from the university campus, passing the university library, and continuing through Schlossplatz to Schloss M\u00fcnster and the adjacent park before turning back. While you\u2019re in the palace park, a detour to the botanical garden is recommended at any time of year. The botanical garden was part of the original palace complex, which was completed after nearly 20 years of construction in 1787 as the last large baroque residence in Germany. Johann Conrad Schlaun designed the space as a French-style geometric garden, but only part of the design could be implemented at first. Soon after its completion, the garden was opened to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","sculpture_maps_tempo":[15079],"sculpture_maps_region":[15071],"acf":{"sm_sculptures":[{"ID":27018,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2017-06-06 23:27:45","post_date_gmt":"2017-06-06 21:27:45","post_content":" \tJenny Holzer installed five stone benches from her Under a Rock<\/em> series in the Schlossgarten for the 1987 Skulptur Projekte. Two of those benches remain on a tree-lined path in the park today. They are positioned in such a way that they incorporate a nearby monument made by sculptor Alexander Frerichmann in 1923. The inscription on the war memorial states: \"Even if everything around us has sunk, let us not ourselves degenerate! Maintain both sword and honour undefiled! Our dead ones \u2013 await!\"\r\n \tThe text inscribed on the benches gives an anonymous account of the most brutal acts of war, which are all the more disturbing because of the succinct language they use. There are phrases like: \"People go to the river where it is lush and muddy to shoot captives, to float or sink them.\" Or \"The soldiers shoot at running women and children who want to sneak away.\" They contain no indication of what war is being described and the authors are not mentioned.\r\n \tThe font is the same as that of gravestones in American cemeteries. As such, the benches are perceived less as seating than as grave slabs or epitaphs. These aggressive, but sometimes abstract poetic inscriptions visually complement the war memorial, while also opposing it in terms of content.\r\n\r\n \tAdditional Information: www.skulptur-projekte.de
<\/span><\/span>\r\n\r\n \tFurther Reading:\r\n \tSkulptur-Projekte 1987 in M\u00fcnster<\/em>, eds. Klaus Bu\u00dfmann and Kasper K\u00f6nig, Cologne 1987, pp. 125\u2013132.\r\n","post_title":"2 Benches","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"2-baenke","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2018-06-29 11:06:35","post_modified_gmt":"2018-06-29 09:06:35","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/nrw-skulptur.net\/skulptur\/2-baenke\/","menu_order":1061,"post_type":"sculpture","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":27027,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2017-06-06 23:27:39","post_date_gmt":"2017-06-06 21:27:39","post_content":" \tBrick outlines cut across the greenery of the Schlosspark like three precise, but restrained sketches of a circle, square, and triangle. In this way, Fran\u00e7ois Morellet incorporated these three purely geometrical shapes into the otherwise soft lines of the landscaped park. This geometry is reminiscent of baroque French garden art, nodding to the fact that the park was originally designed by baroque architect G. L. Pictorius to feature strict symmetry and geometry. However, W. F. Lipper's designs were implemented instead, using the English landscape garden as a model. The conflict between these two fundamental concepts of art and nature is expressed with simultaneous restraint and tension in Morellet's contribution to the 1987 Skulptur Projekte.\r\n\r\n \tAdditional information: www.lwl.org\/skulptur-projekte-download\/muenster\/87\/morell\/index.htm<\/a>\r\n\r\n \tFurther reading:\r\n \tSkulptur-Projekte 1987 in M\u00fcnster<\/em>, eds. Klaus Bu\u00dfmann and Kasper K\u00f6nig, Cologne 1987, pp. 187\u2013192.","post_title":"\u00c0 la fran\u00e7aise (encore une fois): Kreis, Quadrat und Dreieck \/ Circle, Square, and Triangle","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-la-francaise-encore-une-fois-kreis-quadrat-und-dreieck","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2018-06-29 11:07:33","post_modified_gmt":"2018-06-29 09:07:33","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/nrw-skulptur.net\/skulptur\/a-la-francaise-encore-une-fois-kreis-quadrat-und-dreieck\/","menu_order":1065,"post_type":"sculpture","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":27035,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2017-06-06 23:27:51","post_date_gmt":"2017-06-06 21:27:51","post_content":" \t\"My songs will live, long after I have disappeared.\" Ian Hamilton Finlay took this quote from Annette von Droste-H\u00fclshoff and had it chiseled onto a rectangular sandstone plaque. The plaque was then mounted four meters above the Droste family grave on the trunk of a poplar in the old \u00dcberwasser-Friedhof. \r\n \tAs a poet himself, Ian Hamilton Finlay condenses his writings down to the point that some poems are no longer than a single word. To achieve their full effect, these poems are inscribed on sandstone tablets \u2013 much like the Annette epitaph \u2013 and placed in the context of nature. As is the case with the Droste-H\u00fclshoff quote, the words\u2019 meanings only truly unfold through their interaction with their surroundings. Contemporary viewers may question Annette\u2019s self-assuredness in the longevity of her words and read it more as an expression of the desire to endure beyond one\u2019s individual existence. However, this seems to be reserved for nature and the cycle of life and death that is presented poetically and melancholically in the old cemetery.\r\n\r\n\r\n \tAdditional information: www.skulptur-projekte.de<\/span><\/span>\r\n\r\n \tFurther reading:\r\n \tSkulptur-Projekte 1987 in M\u00fcnster<\/em>, eds. Klaus Bu\u00dfmann and Kasper K\u00f6nig, Cologne 1987, pp. 80\u201386.","post_title":"A Remembrance of Annette","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-remembrance-of-annette","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2018-06-29 11:05:56","post_modified_gmt":"2018-06-29 09:05:56","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/nrw-skulptur.net\/skulptur\/a-remembrance-of-annette\/","menu_order":1057,"post_type":"sculpture","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":27098,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2017-06-06 23:27:14","post_date_gmt":"2017-06-06 21:27:14","post_content":"Despite the fact that the two sculptures he created for the 1987 Skulptur Projekte are located 20 meters apart on different sections of grass in the Schlossplatz, the sculptor considers them to be part of the same work. One part is flat square form atop a cross-shaped foundation; the other is tower-like stele. Both sculptures are constructed out of the same redbrick, which was baked specially for this purpose. \r\nThe characteristic blind segmental arches found on both sculptures put them in direct communication with each other, as well as with the architecture of the palace on one side of the square and with the residential buildings on the other. They seem to symbolize a sinking and emerging architecture that is representative of the rising landscape of M\u00fcnster as a city.\r\n\r\n\r\n \tAdditional information: www.skulptur-projekte.de<\/span><\/span>\r\n","post_title":"Brickwork Sculpture","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"backstein-skulptur","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2018-07-08 10:51:22","post_modified_gmt":"2018-07-08 08:51:22","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/nrw-skulptur.net\/skulptur\/backstein-skulptur\/","menu_order":1081,"post_type":"sculpture","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":27318,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2017-06-06 23:26:34","post_date_gmt":"2017-06-06 21:26:34","post_content":"A poetic sounding title is used to describe the work, but it leaves it up to the viewer to create a meaningful connection between the two images it contains. The work itself appears similarly disparate: it consists of a metal arch with mirrored slats, as well as an ensemble of 16 spherical and five pyramid-shaped yews. These elements were arranged geometrically on a rectangular lawn with old trees in the courtyard of the law faculty at the university, so that the grass and the yews appear in multiple refractions in the mirrored surfaces. \r\nHere, as in many of his works, Harald Klingelh\u00f6ller's sculpture focusses on spoken and visual signs that produce meaning through the composition of individual forms. He uses basic geometric forms, materials, and their potential for association like an artistic vocabulary in which the message remains as ambiguous as the title of the work.\r\n\r\nFurther reading: Skulptur-Projekte 1987 in M\u00fcnster<\/em>, ed. by Klaus Bu\u00dfmann and Kasper K\u00f6nig, Cologne 1987, pp. 157\u2013162.\r\n","post_title":"Die Wiese lacht oder das Gesicht an der Wand \/ The Meadow Laughs or the Face on the Wall","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"die-wiese-lacht-oder-das-gesicht-an-der-wand","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2018-09-16 20:12:32","post_modified_gmt":"2018-09-16 18:12:32","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/nrw-skulptur.net\/skulptur\/die-wiese-lacht-oder-das-gesicht-an-der-wand\/","menu_order":1107,"post_type":"sculpture","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":27321,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2017-06-06 23:26:30","post_date_gmt":"2017-06-06 21:26:30","post_content":"The sculpture serves as a starting point for the first Skulptur-Projekte in 1977. Likewise, as a site-specific sculpture that intensively interacts with its surroundings, it is also starting point into Ulrich R\u00fcckriem\u2019s sculptural work. Nine raw stone wedges of differing heights were placed side by side to form a stepped wall that is smooth along the front with a sloped natural surface on the back. \r\nThe form and material make reference to the brick buttresses on the longitudinal wall of the nearby Petrikirche, functioning as their sculptural counterpart. After its installation, it was heavily criticized at first and then even dismantled in 1981. However, it was reinstalled in its location for the 1987 Skulptur-Projekte and has been widely acknowledged as an important contribution to the development of art in public space since then.\r\n\r\n","post_title":"Dolomit, zugeschnitten \/ Cut Dolomite","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"dolomit-zugeschnitten","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2018-09-16 21:27:46","post_modified_gmt":"2018-09-16 19:27:46","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/nrw-skulptur.net\/skulptur\/dolomit-zugeschnitten\/","menu_order":1111,"post_type":"sculpture","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":27967,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2017-06-06 23:28:01","post_date_gmt":"2017-06-06 21:28:01","post_content":" \tA core principal of pop art is the reinterpretation of everyday objects as artworks, whether it be through enlargement (Claes Oldenburg) or through serial arrangement (Andy Warhol). Richard Artschwager also used these methods when designing his bike rack monuments for M\u00fcnster.\r\nThe cast concrete bike rack, surrounded by bicycles but mostly empty itself, is typical to M\u00fcnster and was originally designed as an object of utility. Here, the artist has made it taller and incorporated it in a series, thus reinterpreting it as a sculpture.\r\nIn fact, the artwork mimics the usual method of incorporating the bike racks in a series and the extra tall element takes on a new function as a planter for two types of trees. Even as an autonomous sculpture, the bicycle stands suddenly take on an unexpected, almost minimalist aesthetic.\r\n\r\n \tFurther reading:\r\n \tSkulptur-Projekte 1987 in M\u00fcnster<\/em>, ed. by Klaus Bu\u00dfmann and Kasper K\u00f6nig, Cologne 1987, pp. 35\u201336.","post_title":"Untitled","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ohne-titel-15","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2018-11-01 20:07:59","post_modified_gmt":"2018-11-01 19:07:59","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/nrw-skulptur.net\/skulptur\/ohne-titel-15\/","menu_order":1049,"post_type":"sculpture","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":28183,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2017-06-06 23:27:22","post_date_gmt":"2017-06-06 21:27:22","post_content":"\"Nature is enough on its own and should also be enough for humans. The nature that we can still find around us (I deliberately avoid saying \"have\") doesn't require any human intervention. It is a revelation in and of itself \u2013 as well as for us...\" This is how Hermann des Vries describes his artistic approach in his Sanctuaries<\/em>.\r\n\r\nA sanctuary is a protected holy place like a church or temple. The Sanctuary <\/em>in M\u00fcnster is made up of a circular brick wall. There is no way to enter the circle, so nature can continue to grow inside unaffected by humans.\r\n\r\nAlong the wall, there are four oval oculi that face each of the cardinal directions; these openings serve as the only way to observe the developing life inside. The sandstone border along the top of the wall is inscribed with Sanskrit quotes from the Upanishads about the completeness and pure being.\r\n\r\nAdditional information: www.hermandevries.org\/project_sanctuaries.php<\/a>\r\n\r\nFurther reading:\r\nSkulptur-Projekte in M\u00fcnster 1997<\/em>, eds. Klaus Bu\u00dfmann, Kasper K\u00f6nig and Florian Matzner, Ostfildern 1997, pp. 430\u2013435.","post_title":"Sanctuary","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"sanctuarium","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-01-08 14:39:45","post_modified_gmt":"2019-01-08 13:39:45","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/nrw-skulptur.net\/skulptur\/sanctuarium\/","menu_order":1075,"post_type":"sculpture","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":30511,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2017-06-06 23:26:33","post_date_gmt":"2017-06-06 21:26:33","post_content":"It\u2019s hard to imagine the vast expanse of the heavens. That might be why Italian Arte Povera artist Giovanni Anselmo brings them down to our level: at a little more than a meter high, he uses simple means to give our imaginations a helping hand.\r\n\r\nThe sculpture consists of a square bar that is positioned vertically on a grassy field near the theology faculty at the Universit\u00e4t M\u00fcnster like a path marker. The words Verk\u00fcrzter Himmel \/ Shortened Heavens<\/em> are engraved on the top surface. The design is based on one of the artist's works from 1969, which has the same text in Italian.\r\n\r\nAround this time, the artist began to deal with the relationship between science, measurability, and sensual experience, discovering one of his primary motifs, which also shapes this work.\r\n\r\nFurther reading:\r\nSkulptur-Projekte 1987 in M\u00fcnster<\/em>, ed. by Klaus Bu\u00dfmann and Kasper K\u00f6nig, Cologne 1987, pp. 25\u201328.","post_title":"Verk\u00fcrzter Himmel \/ Shortened Heavens","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"verkuerzter-himmel","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-08-01 09:54:18","post_modified_gmt":"2019-08-01 07:54:18","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/nrw-skulptur.net\/skulptur\/verkuerzter-himmel\/","menu_order":1109,"post_type":"sculpture","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":30530,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2017-06-06 23:27:17","post_date_gmt":"2017-06-06 21:27:17","post_content":"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.\r\n\r\nAmerican Fluxus pioneer Gerorge Brecht created three VOID Stones<\/em> for M\u00fcnster, 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.\r\n\r\nMindfulness, complete experience of the present, and recognition of reality only become possible in the state of the emptiness of the mind.\r\n\r\nFurther reading:\r\nSkulptur-Projekte 1987 in M\u00fcnster<\/em>,ed. by Klaus Bu\u00dfmann and Kasper K\u00f6nig, Cologne 1987, pp. 51\u201354.","post_title":"VOID Stone","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"void-stone","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-08-01 21:40:49","post_modified_gmt":"2019-08-01 19:40:49","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/nrw-skulptur.net\/skulptur\/void-stone\/","menu_order":1079,"post_type":"sculpture","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nrw-skulptur.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sculpture_maps\/26864"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nrw-skulptur.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sculpture_maps"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nrw-skulptur.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/sculpture_maps"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nrw-skulptur.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"sculpture_maps_tempo","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nrw-skulptur.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sculpture_maps_tempo?post=26864"},{"taxonomy":"sculpture_maps_region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nrw-skulptur.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sculpture_maps_region?post=26864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}