Remember the post about the open-air art exhibition at Môtiers, in the Jura above Neuchâtel? Well, I was hoping to go back for a second look, but it's been so busy here that there's barely time to create the long-promised second post about that magical show.Above, a reminder of "Bleu du ciel" (Sky Blue) by Katja Schenker after Relax' UNIMOTIERS.
... from which a rain-bow coloured little road leads to a curious object in the meadow. (I gather the rainbow is from a previous show):
Can you guess what it is? Don't peek below just yet, have a think... :)
Yes, a huge bed, with an "eiderdown" in the shape of a gently rounded, snowy landscape. Peculiar, touching. (Tina Z'Rotz et Markus Schwander: In den Hügeln [In the Hills]).
This image just to show the dimensions of this piece. The person on the left is a girl, maybe fifteen years old.
A little further downhill, the patient, art-loving farmers painstakingly keep a field cropped, manoeuvring their tractors ...
... around a billboard depicting three cows grazing and nibbling at the Swiss organic food producers' logo of a budding blade of grass (or some other bud).In the nearby woods one comes across more curious objects, like this beautiful door that reflects the trees and the sky...
... without actually leading anywhere, or this quirky piece:
Kerim Seiler's Fusionobjekt is a set of picnic benches "woven" into a tree.
The shadows weave another pattern...
Elsewhere, near a bridge that leads into steeper woodland, cars drive, people and dogs walk across a gash in the concrete that only at very close range reveals human shapes – finger-length aluminum moulds crammed together and held in by wire mesh. (Marcus Egli: Passage clandestin)The sinister allusions are brought home with sickening force in Martin Disler's nine bronzes from his series Häutung und Tanz, 1990-91 (Moult and Dance). The name of this piece sounds so much more positive that his figures, which reminded me of images from Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
They become half-way bearable by the memory of the "eternal" peace at the nearby waterfall:
And because I'm not really such a pessimist, I turn to more cheerful things, like this door in the middle of the village, which, presumably, does lead somewhere.
(Sylvie Fleury: Mushroom, with Relax' UNIMOTIERS in the background.)
The neat thing about this kind of show is that it hones one's senses so that one begins to see art even where there is none, or only accidentally so.
I wish I could have asked someone about the purpose of this wheel -- I'm sure it's a very ingenious piece of agricultural engineering.
1 comment:
Great photos, looks interesting.
R.
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