Sculpture Park in Viersen
Around the district office and the old Villa Kaiser the sculpture park emphasises artistic features. Here a small selection.
By now the town's landmark: the landed star in front of the Forum:
'New Star"' by artist Mark di Suvero.
'Wirbelsäule' (vertebrae) by Anthony Cragg
Work technique, material: bronze casting, sculpture
Measurements: 430 cm x 160 cm
Short description
Bronze hollow casting, layered three-dimensional disc volumes of different sizes, which whorl upwards around an unstable central axis.
Its monumental size, the black patina and the unusual clear design merge the art body in its independence in the space of park and architecture phenomenal. Stepping around the 'vertebrae' one is surprised the sudden change of the formation and by the rapid alteration of the appearance.
Source: Joachim Peter Kastner, Anthony Cragg in Matta - Chaosmos in der Skulpturensammlung Viersen, publisher Verein für Heimatpflege e.V. Viersen 2002
'Frau mit Armen' (woman with arms) by Georg Ettl
Work technique, material: Cor-Ten steel sculpture, cut with laser
Measurements: total height 730cm, figure 490cm high, table ca. 240 x 160 x 160cm (H x B x T), material strenght: 100mm (table), 80mm (figure), 60mm (arm)
Short description
Made from Cor-Ten steel cut silhouette in an upright standing female figure on a pedestal. As a pictogram house high in front of the wide stairway and the closed facade of the town hall the figure determines the bright place between town hall, bus terminal and the city gallery park. Diagonally opposite is the sculpture 'Vertebrae' by Tony Cragg.
'Optimus II' by Günter Haese