Art from nature / Land Art in the Osteinschen Niederwald
Hessian Palace Department invites interested parties to workshop
The State Palaces and Gardens invite for the first time to a Land Art workshop in the Osteinschen Niederwald near Rüdesheim am Rhein.
From Friday to Sunday, August 21 to 23, the artists Frank Nordiek and Wolfgang Buntrock from Atelier Land Art in Hanover will instruct interested parties in the historic park forest to transform natural materials into landscape art works with simple means at various locations.
Dr. Inken Formann, Head of the Department of Gardens and Garden Monument Conservation, said: "We hope that our guests will be inspired in a different way by the historical site, with leisure, creativity and fun. Land Art uses what is found in nature, such as grasses, shrubs, leaves, stones, woods and creates something new in the open countryside. During the design process, you learn to read the special features of an area of land.
The workshop is a short-term replacement for a nature installation of the duo commissioned by the castle administration, which fell victim to the Corona lockdown at the beginning of the year and subsequent restrictions. The plan was to create a work that in form and content refers to the landscape art of Count Karl Maximilian von Ostein (1735-1809), which was realized in the Niederwald. The project with Nordiek and Buntrock, who have been realizing works of art as a team in Germany and internationally since 1996, is expected to be realized in 2021 and, if possible, will start a Land Art series in the Niederwald.
At the end of the workshop, on Sunday at about 3 pm, there will be a vernissage of the works of all participants. Participation (max. 25 persons) is free and requires comfortable, weather-adapted clothing. The event will be held even in bad weather. You have to provide your own catering. A pair of rose scissors brought along as an aid would be inexpensive. Meeting place on Friday, August 21, 16 o'clock, is at the hunting lodge Niederwald, 65385 Rüdesheim am Rhein.
Please register with Elisabeth Weymann, elisabeth.weymann@schloesser.hessen.de.
Dates: Fri., August 21, 4-19 p.m.; Sat., August 22, 10-17 p.m.; Sun, August 23, 10-15 p.m.
Further information: Wolfgang Buntrock and Frank Nordiek, Studio Land Art https://landart.de
Source: www.frankfurt-live.com
