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Hildesheim
Lkr. Hildesheim Niedersachsen Dammstraße
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SteingartenRock Garden |
Moritz Bormann
1971 |
Stone sculpture of a few flower-like objects.
The city of Hildesheim owes seventeen objects to the Kontakt-Kunst-Gruppe (Contact Art Group), which was founded in 1971 by Moritz Bormann and Otto Almstadt in the Bischofsmühle and continued to have an impact even after the dissolution in 1986. Their guiding principles were: the street as a studio, the passers-by as a participatory audience, the equality of the work process and product, the connection between work and life in the "art tent", the work process as art mediation and the interdisciplinary nature of both the arts (stone, metal , wood) as well as the artist (sculptor, jazz, theater, literature). In this sense, the group called their first action (on behalf of the city of Hildesheim) from 23 April 23 to 1 May 1971 at the Hindenburgplatz "Art Meeting".
Bormann realized the sandstone sculpture "Baum" (tree), which was bought by the district government in November 1972 and set up on Hoher Weg. It was implemented during the renovation of the pedestrian zone on the northern edge of Andreasplatz. Rüdiger Höding's "Kapittel" steyed at the corner of Goslarsche Straße and Zingel.
From the Kontakt-Kunst campaigns in other cities over the next few years, art objects emerged that could not always stay where they were created. Moritz Bormann assembled them at the Bischofsmühle in a "sculpture garden" (shortened translation of some paragraphs in the introduction to Kulturium's Kunst im öffentlichen Raum in Hildesheim seit 1970 (PDF online).
On this site, the following sculptures are included:
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