Rudolf Herz Ornament A Metro Station in Munich
Exiting the train at Munichs newly built Oberwiesenfeld underground station, passengers come upon something astounding: On the opposite wall of the platform are black and white panels, arranged in a variable, strictly geometric pattern, but without any discernible ordering scheme. As one then moves toward the exit, the panels seem to move as well, regrouping and suddenly revealing the image of a labyrinth. Rudolf Herz (*1954), the artist behind the decoration of the station, generated his wall-filling anamorphosis using a picture distortion technique that has been known since the Renaissance. Herz was also the winner of a competition for a "Memorial for the Murdered European Jews." In his entry he proposed turning one kilometer of the highway near Kassel into a memorial by paving it with cobblestones and changing the speed limit to 30 km/h. A preoccupation with perception and motion plays a prominent role in the work of this conceptual artist. Walter Grasskamp expands on this theme in his essay, examining the one-of-a-kind interplay between anamorphosis and labyrinth.
Softcover
23 x 29,5 cm
64 pages
25 color and b/w illustrations
German, English
Available
ISBN 978-3-939583-85-1
2008
Artists:
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Exiting the train at Munichs newly built Oberwiesenfeld underground station, passengers come upon something astounding: On the opposite wall of the platform are black and white panels, arranged in a variable, strictly geometric pattern, but without any discernible ordering scheme. As one then moves toward the exit, the panels seem to move as well, regrouping and suddenly revealing the image of a labyrinth. Rudolf Herz (*1954), the artist behind the decoration of the station, generated his wall-filling anamorphosis using a picture distortion technique that has been known since the Renaissance. Herz was also the winner of a competition for a "Memorial for the Murdered European Jews." In his entry he proposed turning one kilometer of the highway near Kassel into a memorial by paving it with cobblestones and changing the speed limit to 30 km/h. A preoccupation with perception and motion plays a prominent role in the work of this conceptual artist. Walter Grasskamp expands on this theme in his essay, examining the one-of-a-kind interplay between anamorphosis and labyrinth.
Softcover
23 x 29,5 cm
64 pages
25 color and b/w illustrations
German, English
Available
ISBN 978-3-939583-85-1
2008
Artists:
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