GRENZÜBERSCHREITUNG, 1996

Location: Congress Centrum Ulm
Material: hand-formed bricks burned in a wood fire, stainless steel ropes, stainless steel ring, dowels, stainless steel screw eyes, Nico ferrules
Dimensions: height: 5.40 m, width: 1.50 m, length: 8 m
1st prize art-in-building competition CCU


















The sculpture Crossing Borders at the Congress Centrum Ulm addresses borders, both vertical and horizontal.
Mankind has long tried to overcome gravity and to push its architectures higher and higher. It begins a long time ago with the Tower of Babel, continues in the Gothic style, the church towers exceed the limits of gravity, in the Renaissance the builders vie for who has the tallest tower in the city and in contemporary architecture gravity shines to be canceled and there no longer seems to be any material limit.
The same is true for the horizontal. Rivers and even seas are no longer an insurmountable obstacle to build bridges over dizzying heights and distances beyond the imagination.
The work BORDER CROSSING is a dialogue with the vertical and the horizontal.