{"id":30440,"date":"2018-10-23T10:04:57","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T08:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nrw-skulptur.net\/route\/bielefeld-die-stadt\/"},"modified":"2019-07-11T12:03:39","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T10:03:39","slug":"bielefeld-die-stadt","status":"publish","type":"sculpture_maps","link":"https:\/\/nrw-skulptur.net\/en\/route\/bielefeld-die-stadt\/","title":{"rendered":"The City of Bielefeld"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starting at Bielefeld Hauptbahnhof, it&#8217;s just a short walk to Isa Genzken&#8217;s <em>Spiegel \/ Mirror<\/em> in front of the Stadthalle. From there, you can take a detour to Per Kirkeby\u2019s architectural sculpture before visiting Sandro Chia&#8217;s work at Rathausplatz in the city center. The city&#8217;s highest concentration of public sculptures can be found in the area surrounding the Kunsthalle Bielefeld, where you will want to spend a while looking at the variety of interesting works. If you wish to walk a bit farther, you can see Nikolaus Gerhard&#8217;s <em>Fallenden Steine \/ Falling Stones<\/em> (1981) near the pedestrian bridge to Johannistal at the edge of Adenauerplatz. Although there are additional interesting works in the city&#8217;s outlying districts \u2013 such as Francois Morellet&#8217;s <em>Sph\u00e8res Trames <\/em>at the Fachhochschule \u2013 they are not within walking distance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":37352,"template":"","sculpture_maps_tempo":[15079],"sculpture_maps_region":[15073],"class_list":["post-30440","sculpture_maps","type-sculpture_maps","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","sculpture_maps_tempo-zu-fuss","sculpture_maps_region-ostwestfalen-lippe"],"acf":{"sm_sculptures":[{"ID":27093,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2017-06-06 23:35:20","post_date_gmt":"2017-06-06 21:35:20","post_content":"This sculpture comprises three 10-meter-high vertical rectangular steel plates. Two of the plates are arranged to form a right angle. The outside edge of the second plate abuts the third plate in the middle, forming a perpendicular. \r\nDespite the monumental dimensions and the massive weight of the material, the plates appear to be in delicate balance. This is because the plates look as if they are precariously leaned against each other, they are not completely vertical, and observers can't see that they are planted at least 4.5 meters into the ground.\r\nAs is often the case, one feels a latent sense of threat when viewing Richard Serra's sculpture. In addition to this subliminal perception of a threat, one is also given the equally disturbing impression that one of the massive steel walls is always obstructing the view, regardless of which direction you approach. \r\nThese factors certainly contribute to the fact that Richard Serra's works often belong among the most controversial public sculptures. Nonetheless, the artist accepts this resistance in how his works are received; in fact, he actively encourages it as a means of redefining the chosen location, and making it possible for the viewer to have a new experience of the space, materials, and proportions.\r\n\r\nReference: www.bi-info.de\/bielefeld\/freizeit\/skulptur\/axis.htm\r\nFurther reading: <em>Richard Serra \u2013 Axis \u2013 Dokumentation.<\/em> Text documentation prepared by Ursula Blanchebarbe. Kunsthalle Bielefeld 1990.\r\n","post_title":"Axis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"axis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2018-07-06 11:53:23","post_modified_gmt":"2018-07-06 09:53:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/nrw-skulptur.net\/skulptur\/axis\/","menu_order":738,"post_type":"sculpture","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":27143,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2017-06-06 23:35:45","post_date_gmt":"2017-06-06 21:35:45","post_content":"Thomas Sch\u00fctte's <em>Bronze Woman<\/em> is located in front of the Bielefeld Kunsthalle. She rests on a steel base with a rusty patina that looks more like a type of bed or transport pallet than a traditional pedestal. She is the first in a series of female figures that the artist has been working with since 1999. They are all fragmented, incomplete, and missing limbs or other body parts. However, they don\u2019t seem broken like traditional torsos, but more like melted wax. \r\nThe same holds true for the reclining figure in Bielefeld. More specifically, her face is missing and there is a flat oval disc in its place. The disc is topped with a fringe of hair and has an incision in the middle. Additional lumps and bulges around the head make the figure seem even less human. Apart from the fact that it appears to be melting into the ground, the rest of the body is largely intact. \r\nIn this way, the figure is tortured and fragmented to one viewer, and relaxed and serene to another. This ambivalence is precisely what makes her seem eerie and attractive at the same time.\r\n","post_title":"Bronze Woman No. I","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"bronzefrau-nr-1","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2018-07-25 12:46:41","post_modified_gmt":"2018-07-25 10:46:41","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/nrw-skulptur.net\/skulptur\/bronzefrau-nr-1\/","menu_order":722,"post_type":"sculpture","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":27255,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2017-06-06 23:35:26","post_date_gmt":"2017-06-06 21:35:26","post_content":"A thirty-meter-high steel frame is held upright by telescopic poles of two different lengths; nonetheless, it seems so fragile that it could swing or tip onto the gently rolling terrain at any time. However, the frame doesn't contain a mirror as suggested by the title. Instead the main view from the street is the white, ship-like architecture of the Bielefeld Stadthalle. The horizontal structure is not the only thing that fits into this frame: the sky above it transforms it into a vertical format image that changes according to the weather and the viewer\u2019s vantage point.\r\nThe artist has experimented with indoor and outdoor works, using a variety of media and materials. In comparison to her often lively assemblages of art and everyday materials, this sculpture is more formally reduced. Like her gate sculpture at the Universit\u00e4tsbibliothek for the M\u00fcnster Skulptur Projekte 1987, she incorporates the surrounding architecture as part of <em>The Mirror<\/em>.\r\n\r\nReference: www.bi-info.de\/bielefeld\/freizeit\/skulptur\/spiegel.htm\r\n","post_title":"Der Spiegel \/ The Mirror","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"der-spiegel","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-07-10 15:40:18","post_modified_gmt":"2019-07-10 13:40:18","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/nrw-skulptur.net\/skulptur\/der-spiegel\/","menu_order":734,"post_type":"sculpture","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":27399,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2017-06-06 23:35:22","post_date_gmt":"2017-06-06 21:35:22","post_content":"Munich sculptor Nikolaus Gerhart's work is made up of 5 stone blocks. Although it looks abstract and formally reduced, it contains a number of thoughtful points of reference. An upright rectangular stone block has a pyramid shaped depression cut out along the top of one side. From the top edge of that block, three stone cubes are arranged in a row, forming a diagonal down to a fourth cube resting on the grass. \r\nLike the large block, the three middle cubes also each have a pyramid shaped depression on one side, as well as a corresponding outward tapered surface on the opposite side. In this way, they seem to line up like a system of stacking boxes. At first, one thinks of a collapsed pillar and associations to the ruins of an ancient temple are not far behind. Beyond that, it looks as if the stones were frozen in the act of falling, just as the title <em>Falling Stones<\/em> would suggest. The sculptor has often considered the relationship of the parts to the whole in his work, which is supplemented here with the subject of time, as well as its duration and impermanence. \r\nReference:\r\nwww.bi-info.de\/bielefeld\/freizeit\/skulptur\/fallendesteine.htm","post_title":"Fallende Steine \/ Falling Stones","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"fallende-steine","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2018-09-21 19:57:42","post_modified_gmt":"2018-09-21 17:57:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/nrw-skulptur.net\/skulptur\/fallende-steine\/","menu_order":736,"post_type":"sculpture","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":27407,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2017-06-06 23:35:42","post_date_gmt":"2017-06-06 21:35:42","post_content":"Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto had already designed the <em>Definitive Wooden House<\/em> in 2005. After its realization in Japan, it received numerous architectural and design awards. It was rebuilt for an architecture show in the sculpture garden at the Kunsthalle Bielefeld, where it can be viewed as an interactive sculpture or an architectural study. \r\nFrom the outside, it looks like a simple 4.2 x 4.2 meter cube with different openings along the facade. The structure is made out of raw wooden beams that have been joined together, giving it an appearance reminiscent of a child\u2019s building blocks. Inside, projecting wooden beams create numerous angles, niches, partitions, and floors, which are used to replace a traditional room layout and sometimes even furniture. Depending on what is needed, the beams can be used as tables, benches, places to sit, or room dividers. In this way, it playfully invites visitors to invade and take over.\r\n","post_title":"Final Wooden House","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"final-wooden-house","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2018-09-23 12:15:20","post_modified_gmt":"2018-09-23 10:15:20","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/nrw-skulptur.net\/skulptur\/final-wooden-house\/","menu_order":724,"post_type":"sculpture","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":27616,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2017-06-06 23:35:18","post_date_gmt":"2017-06-06 21:35:18","post_content":"Otto Freundlich is considered one of the first abstract painters and sculptors. His deeply humanistic artistic approach is an intrinsic part of his work. For him, art and human coexistence are grounded in a shared ethical foundation. He believed art to be a means of communication that transcends borders and language barriers, which can accompany and strengthen all people on the path towards social unity.\r\nThis is the basis for his idea of building \u201cstreets of sculptures\u201d across Europe to unite people, which was taken up several times after his death. His social ideas made him a pioneer of the notions of art that were later developed by fluxus and performance artists in the 1960s, especially Joseph Beuys. \r\nHis abstract compositions start with the human body, which is then broken down into cubic, but still organic looking forms. The resulting sculptures are not meant to be likenesses, but embodiments of the general human and social idea.\r\n\r\nReference: www.bi-info.de\/bielefeld\/freizeit\/skulptur\/komposition.htm","post_title":"Komposition \/ Composition","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"komposition","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2018-10-07 17:56:11","post_modified_gmt":"2018-10-07 15:56:11","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/nrw-skulptur.net\/skulptur\/komposition\/","menu_order":740,"post_type":"sculpture","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":27661,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2017-06-06 23:35:15","post_date_gmt":"2017-06-06 21:35:15","post_content":"Henry Moore has always been inspired by natural forms. While many of his works are clearly based on parts of the human body, that is not the case with <em>Oval with Points<\/em>. Standing upright, the large irregular oval ring has two points sticking out in the middle that extend towards each other and almost touch.\r\nThe small resulting gap between them nonetheless becomes the sculpture's center and reference point. The work is defined not only by the massive volume of the surrounding ring, but also by its empty spaces. The center of the oval provides two separate views through the similarly rounded frames above and below the points. Despite its completely abstract design, the sculpture appears lively and active. Depending on one\u2019s perspective, it could be seen as two figures leaning towards each other or a cell in the process of dividing. In any case, the viewer seems to be witnessing a movement that is not quite complete. \r\nIn his monumental abstract work, the artist makes organic processes visible and comprehensible; they are not bound to a specific natural model, but characterize every living thing.\r\n\r\nReference: www.bi-info.de\/bielefeld\/freizeit\/skulptur\/largeoval.htm","post_title":"Large Oval with Points","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"large-oval-with-points-grosses-oval-mit-spitzen","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2018-10-13 14:51:17","post_modified_gmt":"2018-10-13 12:51:17","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/nrw-skulptur.net\/skulptur\/large-oval-with-points-grosses-oval-mit-spitzen\/","menu_order":742,"post_type":"sculpture","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":27663,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2017-06-06 23:35:35","post_date_gmt":"2017-06-06 21:35:35","post_content":"Created in Paris in 1944, Henri Laurens's sculpture <em>Le Matin<\/em> was largely influenced by the German occupation and the persecution of numerous other artists in his circle. Laurens had numbered among the artists of Montparnasse since 1911 and started out making cubist paintings and sculptures. His origins in synthetic cubism \u2013 a style in which figures are broken down into cubic forms to capture multiple perspectives simultaneously -- are still recognizable in this later works. \r\nAround 1930, his works lost their cubist severity; consequently, the reduction to basic cubic forms then opened up into a soft, voluptuous physicality. This is also the case for <em>Le Matin<\/em>. The kneeling female figure has one leg forward as if she were about to stand up. At the same time, she seems to be burdened by a heavy weight that is pushing her head down against her chest and she must brace herself against it with all her strength.\r\nIn this way, the sculpture is not comparable to other common art historical personifications of morning as a young woman who radiantly welcomes the new day. Instead, it represents the moment when a strong and self-contained female figure is confronted with a crushing reality that she may have temporarily forgotten in her sleep. The attempt to rise in spite of everything and the invisible weight make her seem like a fighter.\r\n\r\nReference: www.bi-info.de\/bielefeld\/freizeit\/skulptur\/lematin.htm","post_title":"Le Matin \/ Morning","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"le-matin-der-morgen","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2018-10-13 15:44:43","post_modified_gmt":"2018-10-13 13:44:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/nrw-skulptur.net\/skulptur\/le-matin-der-morgen\/","menu_order":728,"post_type":"sculpture","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":27985,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2017-06-06 23:35:29","post_date_gmt":"2017-06-06 21:35:29","post_content":"As is often the case with the Danish artist's sculptures, this work initially seems like an architectural structure and is only understood as a sculpture upon closer inspection. At first glance, the redbrick construction looks like a small chapel, particularly because the perimeter forms the shape of a Greek cross. However, it is not a building with a specific function: the structure proves to be an open passageway made up of round and segment arches \u2013 it is more reminiscent of a pergola than a building. The open roof provides a rectangular view of the sky, which is accentuated on each side by a notch in the middle of the brickwork. \r\nOn one of the four sides, the open passageway is significantly limited. A two-part brick wall has been constructed in front of the opening. Aside from the narrow gap in the middle, the wall closes off one of the round arches and continues up into the rectangular tower at the top of the sculpture. \r\nIn this work, Per Kirkeby incorporates traditional architectural motifs like the cross-shaped layout and the round and segment arches; he frees them from their functionality and uses them to design a playful lesson about interiors and exteriors, symmetry, and the tension created by subverting them.\r\n\r\nReference: www.bi-info.de\/bielefeld\/freizeit\/skulptur\/ot2.htm","post_title":"Untitled","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"ohne-titel-28","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2018-11-02 16:56:41","post_modified_gmt":"2018-11-02 15:56:41","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/nrw-skulptur.net\/skulptur\/ohne-titel-28\/","menu_order":732,"post_type":"sculpture","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":28060,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2017-06-06 23:36:58","post_date_gmt":"2017-06-06 21:36:58","post_content":"Along with Francesco Clemente, Enzo Cucchi, and Mimmo Paladino, Sandro Chia is one of the main representatives of the Italian transavanguardia, which developed in the second half of the seventies and rediscovered classical themes in a figurative style.\r\n\r\nThe figurative representational works reflect tradition and history in a subjective and expressive way. The artist, who works as a painter and sculptor, draws from an eclectic pool and likes to reference earlier art epochs and trends in his work, such as Italian mannerism, cubism, futurism, and fauvism.\r\n\r\nHe prefers subjects like Cyclopes, centaurs, and saints. The oversized figure <em>Passione per l\u00e1rte \/ Passion for Art<\/em> also depicts a male figure using mannerist-style exaggeration. The figure, dressed in only a loincloth, crouches on a rock mass. Both hands are placed on his head in a gesture that is simultaneously protective and expressive. The upper body is twisted forward, so that his muscular chest is visible and one of his elbows points upward, while the other rests on his knee.\r\n\r\nThe unnatural mannerist posture seems to reproduce a moment of extreme rapture, which is enhanced by the expression on his face. His pupils are depicted as spirals; the lips are twisted into a half unconscious smile. A <em>Passion for Art<\/em> seems to have brought the man to his knees in a hypnotic-intoxicated state of excitement.","post_title":"Passione per l\u00b4arte \/ Passion for Art","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"passione-per-larte","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2018-11-14 18:59:49","post_modified_gmt":"2018-11-14 17:59:49","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/nrw-skulptur.net\/skulptur\/passione-per-larte\/","menu_order":680,"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\/30440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nrw-skulptur.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nrw-skulptur.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"sculpture_maps_tempo","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nrw-skulptur.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sculpture_maps_tempo?post=30440"},{"taxonomy":"sculpture_maps_region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nrw-skulptur.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sculpture_maps_region?post=30440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}