The 9th Meridian by Susanne Immer

Already recognizable from afar thanks to the pins

Susanne Immer - The 9th Meridian, 2017, steel, erected as part of the Geodesy Action Week
Source: schoenbuch-heckengaeu.de/freizeitplaner/?item=23401932"The work "The 9th Meridian" by Susanne Immer is named after the imaginary meridian of the same name on Earth, which, like the others, connects the two geographical poles - with the characteristic that the sun is highest at all points on this line at midday takes a stand (circulus meridianus, "lunch circle"). Always works "with line progressions in the broadest sense": on paper or canvas, as a "built" line in space - "lines form bundled configurations that emerge in a bridging, binding or marking manner". means lines always cause boundaries and border crossings.
The installation “The 9th Meridian,” writes the artist, “takes up these principles and expands them on the imaginary axis of the 9th meridian from the North Pole to the South Pole.” The 9th meridian runs along the Altdorf water tower and is marked by ten 5m high pins with different colored heads. "In a rhythmic arrangement, partly grouped, partly solitary, they trace the path of the 9th m., so that the viewer perceives the line as such and at the same time the going beyond this concrete, locally visible area becomes imaginable. The needles are represented by their The work is considered a fictitious work in progress or pars pro toto, because it aims to extend the meridian beyond the district. "Developing a global project from this would not only be interesting and exciting, but important, especially at this time."
Source: schoenbuch-heckengaeu.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Katalog_Entwurf_SCULPTOURA_112023.pdf

Title: 9th Meridian
Artist: Susanne Immer (Reutlingen)
Material & Year: Steel, created in 2017 as part of a geodesy activity weekEleven giant, colorful pins stand exactly where the 9th meridian east runs—through a wheat field west of Holzgerlingen toward the Altdorf water tower