For Sculpture Projects Münster 07, Pawel Althamer will construct a path. Starting where a footpath and bicycle trail meet in a municipal recreation area near Lake Aa, Althamer's path will lead, through meadows and fields, out of the city. Just short of one kilometre, however, it will abruptly end in the middle of a field of barley. Surprised that the trail has suddenly ended, visitors will have to decide how to react upon this open situation and how to return to the city.
The path, whose sporadic quality distinguishes it from the more permanent paths, passes by a main road leading out of Münster and enters an agricultural area on the outskirts of the city. Simultaneously, this change of environment alters the way that the path itself is perceived, as it is transformed from an intervention in the city's existing infrastructure into an adventurous way out of the routines of everyday urban living. Reminiscent of walks taken during childhood, the trail leads visitors into the countryside, past a small woodland area and across a stream - highlighting precisely the natural qualities that we often no longer perceive in our media-saturated world. At the place where it abruptly ends, the trail challenges visitors' ability to make a decision, to face the situation at hand, and to assume responsibility for themselves. The special appeal of this work lies in its capacity to change familiar patterns of action and create an open-ended situation in which visitors can - and, indeed, have to - renegotiate possibilities. It is work that, for the duration of the exhibition, will continually change and grow as each visitor takes his or her own individual decision.
BELOW: stop frame animations of Path
Source : http://culture.pl/en/event/pawel-althamer-at-sculpture-projects-munster
It was interesting to see a land artist that does not use straight, geometric lines. And an artist that used the walk in a very different fashion to Richard Long
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