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Buer
Stadt Gelsenkirchen
Nordrhein-Westfalen

Goldbergplatz

Blobster

Gereon Krebber
2013

Description

Formless, floating "thing" on a structure with three legs. The artist says about this work: "In our society, art often formulates something that one does not want to recognize spontaneously - but perhaps only after one has dealt with it. That's why the Blobster shouldn't fit harmoniously and decoratively into the cityscape in Buer. It's supposed to be a foreign body. A structure that bothers at first. (...) But that exists in order to be able to engage with it."

Sculptor

Gereon Krebber (Oberhausen 1973), German sculptor from Köln (Website).

Sources & Information

Stadt Gelsenkirchen, StadtKunst - Kunst im öffentlichen Raum.
Gelsenkirchener Geschichten, Kunst im öffentlichen Raum.
Gelsenkirchener Geschichten, Blobster.

Locatie (N 51°34'38" - E 7°3'18") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: denw889; Photograph: 29 July 2022
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