Video: Impressive spatial composition of broken glass in the pillared hall of Brouwyler Abbey
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
"The Aérial" is one of the most impressive and daring spatial compositions by the French artist Baptiste Debombourg. Two tons of glass, 240 hours of painstaking work, and the columned hall of the Brauweiler Abbey in western Germany as a place for the exhibition.
Debombur is known for his passion for using the most mundane and simple objects found literally in every home. The objects in his installations, as a rule, are storytellers, leading unhappy conversations about life with the viewer. So, for the first part of a new series of exhibitions under the general title "Spiritual ground", Batiste invented and brought to life the stunning spatial composition "The Aérial", which took 240 hours and two tons of broken laminated glass to make.
A powerful glass wave rushes down from the huge windows of the abbey's columned hall, repeatedly refracting the daylight. The fact that the abbey is a historically significant object, and its functions have repeatedly changed over the centuries (a concentration camp was located in the pillar hall during the war years, at another historical moment there was a hospital for the mentally ill), a lot of interest to the artist. Glass, in his opinion, is able to "reflect", albeit literally, the changes that these walls underwent at the will of people.
As an epigraph for his installation, Debombourg selected a quote from Roger Martin du Gard, a French writer and Nobel Prize winner: “Consciousness is everything. Material is a servant of the spiritual."
Debombourg's installation is only the first part of a series of show projects, the aim of which is to gradually transform the columned hall of the former Benedictine Abbey of Brauweiler near Cologne into a new cultural space.
The installation "The Ring" is an interesting work by another French artist Arnaud Lapierre. For three days, this design of repeating mirror blocks flaunted on the Place Vendôme - one of the "five royal squares" in Paris.
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