{"id":9939,"date":"2021-05-11T11:40:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T09:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.museum-re.de\/?p=9939"},"modified":"2024-05-16T11:50:59","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T09:50:59","slug":"the-first-work-of-art-in-the-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.museum-re.de\/en\/museum\/aktuelles\/the-first-work-of-art-in-the-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"The first work of art in the museum \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What is the\u00a0work of art in question?<\/strong>
\nThe\u00a0two-part work is titled\u00a0Pair\u00a0and was\u00a0created by the 72-year-old artist Tony Cragg. The two parts\u00a0are 6.5 and 6.2\u00a0metres high and are made of polished bronze. In the base area, the hollow\u00a0bodies\u00a0have walls that are approx. 12 millimetres thick and they are about half\u00a0as thick in the upper section.\u00a0The date given for the abstract work is 2019 because\u00a0the design for it was created in that year.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Why was the\u00a0work put in place now \u2013 long before the museum building is completed?<\/strong>
\nPair\u00a0is so large and so heavy that it was only at\u00a0this point in time that the work of art could be lifted\u00a0from the lorry over the\u00a0museum with the available crane and moved into the building through the\u00a0unglazed openings in the shell. During further construction work it will be\u00a0scaffolded here and\u00a0protected from damage until the museum opens.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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How heavy\u00a0is the work of art?<\/strong>
\nThe double\u00a0sculpture weighs around six tons. Because it was created after the museum\u00a0building\u00a0had already been planned, new structural analysis calculations had to\u00a0be made. To prevent the\u00a0heavy work from imposing too heavy a load on the\u00a0ceiling, the Wiesbaden-based company Huhle\u00a0produced a special structure in\u00a0which steel girders arched upwards to ensure that the bronze bodies\u00a0attached to\u00a0them do not transfer their weight to the ceiling but to the walls in the room.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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What is the sculpture supposed to represent?<\/strong>
\nAs an abstract\u00a0work of art,\u00a0Pair\u00a0does not purport to\u00a0have any effect; it only unfolds in the minds of its\u00a0viewers. The dynamic\u00a0shapes are detached from geometric specifications and appear organic \u2013 like\u00a0round discs stacked on top of each other. What they show or are supposed to\u00a0trigger mentally\u00a0remains open-ended.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Who is Tony Cragg?<\/strong>
\nSir Tony\u00a0Cragg, born Anthony Cragg in Liverpool in 1949, is a visual artist, who has\u00a0already\u00a0appeared at numerous major exhibitions \u2013 such as Documenta 7 and 8 in\u00a0Kassel as well as at five\u00a0biennials in Venice, S\u00e3o Paulo and Sydney. Cragg studied\u00a0art at the Gloucestershire College of Art,\u00a0the Wimbledon School of Art and the\u00a0Royal College of Art in London. During his studies he switched\u00a0his interest\u00a0from painting to sculpture. After completing his studies, he accepted a\u00a0teaching position\u00a0at the \u00c9cole des Beaux-Arts in Metz. During this period,\u00a0Cragg also moved to Wuppertal, where he\u00a0still lives today. From 1979 to 2013\u00a0Tony Cragg taught at the Art Academy in D\u00fcsseldorf, and in\u00a02009 he succeeded\u00a0Markus L\u00fcpertz as its rector. He has been a member of the Royal Academy of\u00a0Arts\u00a0in London since 1994 and a member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin since 2002. He\u00a0was also\u00a0elevated to Commander of the British Empire (CBE) the same year. In 2016\u00a0he received his Knight\u00a0Bachelor title, and has been Sir Tony Cragg since then.<\/p>\n

In 2006 the\u00a0sculptor acquired an overgrown 15-hectare park in Wuppertal along with the\u00a0listed Villa\u00a0Waldfrieden, where he sought to develop the Waldfrieden Sculpture\u00a0Park. In order to devote himself\u00a0to this project, he gave up his professorship at\u00a0the University of the Arts in Berlin (UdK) and\u00a0switched to the D\u00fcsseldorf Art\u00a0Academy. The sculpture park was opened in September 2008. It\u00a0displays works by\u00a0Tony Cragg and other international sculptors as well as alternating special\u00a0exhibitions.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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How did it\u00a0happen that this work came to Wiesbaden?<\/strong>
\nTony Cragg is\u00a0considered a major international artist of abstract sculptures and has been on\u00a0the\u00a0wish list of collector Reinhard Ernst for a long time. Ernst acquired the\u00a0wooden sculpture\u00a0Willow II\u00a0at\u00a0an\u00a0auction of Ketterer Kunst GmbH two years ago. Markus Eisenbeis from the van Ham\u00a0auction\u00a0house, with whom the collector discussed this work, established the\u00a0initial personal contact between\u00a0the artist and Reinhard Ernst. The museum\u00a0founder came up with the idea of using an alcove in the\u00a0Wiesbaden building that\u00a0extends over two floors and is the focus of many perspectives to install a\u00a0sculpture. During visits that Reinhard Ernst made with his wife to the artist\u2019s\u00a0studio in D\u00fcsseldorf,\u00a0this idea grew \u2013 and culminated in sketches that Tony\u00a0Cragg created for the space. The designs\u00a0were immediately well received and\u00a0were turned into bronze sculptures in just under two years. On\u00a07 May, a lorry\u00a0delivered\u00a0Pair\u00a0directly from the\u00a0Kayser art foundry in D\u00fcsseldorf to Wiesbaden.\u00a0Because it had rained the night\u00a0before and it would be detrimental to wrap the sculptured parts with\u00a0a wet\u00a0surface, they floated unwrapped and in glistening gold through Wiesbaden\u2019s sky\u00a0to the\u00a0surprise of all the spectators present.<\/p>\n

You can find out more about Tony Cragg and his work on the sculpture in this (German) video from 2020:<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Friday 7 May 2021 was an historic date, because on this day the first work of art found its place in the Reinhard Ernst Museum. We have documented the event in photos and respond to questions that have reached us about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":9942,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museum-re.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museum-re.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museum-re.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museum-re.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museum-re.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9939"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.museum-re.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9955,"href":"https:\/\/www.museum-re.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9939\/revisions\/9955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museum-re.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museum-re.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museum-re.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museum-re.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}