KUNST FÜR ALLE
Why is there a nose next to the Danube? Why is the phone booth on top of a pyramid, a bathroom in the great outdoors, or a gigantic little onion in the middle of a roundabout? The booklet KUNST FÜR ALLE (ART FOR EVERYONE), created by the artist and graphic designer pair Motmot from Vienna with the help of their two daughters Amelie (10) and Melissa (5), is the first Public Art Lower Austria guide made for kids.
The guide invites families to go on a discovery tour of public artworks in Lower Austria. It playfully shows kids how they can approach the chosen artworks with the help of interesting questions and activities they can do on paper, while also encouraging them to go and see the works themselves on-site. Kids are also encouraged to find their very own unique approach to the artistic objects and installations and to create their own art cosmos.
The graphic designer Anna Breitenberger and the artist Stephen Reeder of Motmot Design and their two experts, their daughters Amelie and Melissa, went on four tours in the summer that took them to the Wachau region, Grafenegg, the Weinviertel region, and Baden. There, they had a closer look at public artworks and assembled a selection for the guide.
From Gelatin’s Wachauer Nase (The Nose from Wachau), through Gottfried Bechtold’s Spitz, Ólafur Elíasson’s camera obscura on the ferry in Spitz, Jakob Lena Knebl’s anamorphic mirror object in Baden, Iris Andraschek’s Badebrunnen (Bathing Fountain) in Loosdorf, the Balance Capsule by Little Warsaw in Grafenegg, to Leo Schatzl’s Großes Zwiebelchen (Big Little Onion) and others: The huge variety of projects provide colorful insight into the possibilities and the functions that artworks in the public realm fulfill, while also offering a good foundation for getting the youngest segment of the art audience interested in and excited about the artworks and the themes connected with them.
They also developed questions, came up with suggestions, and designed instructions for building things yourself (like a camera obscura), for researching (“How does anamorphosis work?”), and for coloring in. Motmot assembled interesting facts about art and artists in a humorous and entertaining way. QR codes help readers find the artworks on-site, while the app Artivive, which was developed in Vienna and is integrated into the booklet, provides some animated surprises and funky sounds.
The booklet can be downloaded for free at: www.koernoe.at
Or it can be ordered for free at: Kunst für Alle – Land Niederösterreich (noe.gv.at)
