Julius von Bismarck
History Apparatus
11. April – 1. January 2016
We find a large stump of a hundreds-year-old oak in the center of Neumarkt square in Arnsberg. Symbolizing permanence and majesty, a historical focal point for city and municipality, as well as a protection and refuge, this mother oak is gone now. Traces prove that it has been recently felled. Did the city grow around this tree and lost it now? The stately tree is though still recognizable in the imagination of the viewer. Bismarck is interested in the relation between construction of reality and perception of nature. His stump is a survivor of a fictional reality and was posthumously written into the history of Arnsberg. |
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