Location: "Gate"(7)
1994 - Works made of red sandstone and steel
Note: This section can be combined very well with the section in Karlstal. The distance between the old melt near Stelzenberg and Trippstadt is about 5 kilometers. Appropriate footwear is recommended for hikers. The route is also very attractive as a bike tour.
DescriptionSeven sculptors took part in the 3rd sculpture symposium of the Rhineland-Palatinate Sculpture Trail Association in late summer 1996. The specifications of the association were limited to formal criteria: the works should be made of sandstone or steel and they should rise at least two meters above the ground.
Dealing with people is the focus of the artistic work of the Krefeld professor Hans-Joachim Albrecht. His "Doppelkopf" (1) can be imagined as an encounter between two people: a man and a woman meet at the intersection of several paths. At the end of Stelzenberg, the eye suddenly gets caught by the steel sculpture "Peilung" (2) by Joachim Koch. His sculpture marks the landscape and focuses the gaze like in a camera viewfinder. The Wiesbaden artist Heiner Thiel deals with the interplay of line, surface and space. If you stand at the right angle in front of the steel sculpture, which weighs more than four tons, the four panels, one behind the other, push together to form an "open square" (3). "Balzgeflüster" (4) is the name of the two steel tubes by Gereon Leppers, each with a rotatable wing attached to the tip. In the wind, the two wings do not necessarily move synchronously, they "talk" to each other, they "court" with each other. The "accumulator" (5) by Otmar Sattel is completely different. The sculpture is a hearthstone on which the wanderer can rest and enjoy a very unusual perspective of the sky. The embedded copper sheet in the middle transmits the heat of the sun's rays to the body. Hartmut Stielow describes his work as a search for a new, open order of unstable equilibrium. The materials stone and iron are kept in his sculpture "O.T." (6) the scales: the stone hollows out the iron - the iron embraces the stone. Werner Ratering's sandstone sculpture was specially designed as a "gateway" (7) to a small beech grove. The blue mortar curtain is gilded on its upper side, as is the underside of the crossbar. Incident light is reflected and produces a light that does not otherwise occur in nature.
(Excerpt from Kulturland.rip.de)