Gabriele Berger
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Stone Wall
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Gabriele Berger created a sculpture for the new home for the elderly in Wilhelmsburg, made of a rising row of stone bricks installed along the access road to the home. The sculpture covers a total area of 35m x 2m
A former industrial site at the centre of Wilhelmsburg was used to build a new home for the elderly. Gabriele Berger chose to erect her work at the access side of the building, incorporating both the access road and the kerbstones along it. Along these she installed a continuously rising row of stone bricks, supporting and at the same time dissolving the rigidity of the architecture behind. The row of brick adds movement to the architectural structure, joining the interplay of the different levels of the grounds, the topographic idiosyncrasies proposed by a river and two canals with different water levels.
(Katharina Blaas-Pratscher)
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