Ana :
Memorial To Johann von Klingenberg in Eisgarn

In the course of the redesign of the centre of Eisgarn the artist ANA won the competition for the artistic redesign of the square next to Stift Eisgarn, which was founded in 1330. As well as the redesign of the square, the brief was for a memorial to its founder, Johann von Klingenberg. Von Klingenberg's enormous significance for the monastery and the community lies not least in his vision, which was to combine spiritual guidance and culture. The initial basis was not simple. There was neither an illustration of the founder nor a description of his appearance to work from, and the square to be redesigned looked like a casually forgotten peak on the side of the road. The artist unified the gently downward sloping square with paving stones and designed a memorial where the person being commemorated was omitted and their memory left to the imagination of the viewer. Two 1.8 metre high, sketch-like abstract wings of cast aluminium leave space between them for the imagination. With these wings ANA has found a synonym for intellectual freedom and the integration of new and individual spaces. She did not want here to make the founder of the monastery into an angel. Instead the wings are more of a symbol for faith as a universal force. The memorial is an abstraction without being abstract to the extent that the absent is given a symbolic framework, not presuming to play on memory but to evoke it.
(Cornelia Offergeld)