Sculptures at the Bibliothek Günther Förg
The grounds surrounding the foundation's library feature artworks by Günther Förg, Rebecca Warren, and Toby Ziegler, visible through the building's expansive windows or discovered within the garden, where they engage in a dynamic dialogue with the historic archive. On the exterior wall of the building, a wall painting by Günther Förg challenges the traditional medium of the canvas, integrating architecture into visual art.
Günther Förg Stele (Tunika), 2007
Günther Förg’s Stele (Tunika), from 2007, encapsulates the artist’s large-scale bronze sculptures, which emanate with a sense of stoic calmness and solidity. Within such works, Förg recorded the sensual and immediate pleasures of encounters with the surface, suggesting a tactile and haptic perception. The second part of the title translates to ‘Tunic’, and indeed the surface of the present work seems to emulate the folds of draped fabric, creating an intricate play with light and shadow.
Günther Förg Wall Partition I, 1986–1993
Günther Förg made his first wall painting in 1978, whilst he was still a student at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, just a year before he took a hiatus from conventional painting to focus on other artistic formats. The artist vertically divided the wall in a friend’s apartment, painting the left-hand side with red tempera paint, hereby at once highlighting and altering the perception of the room’s architectural features
Ulrich Rückriem Gebhardser Granit, 1988
Since the late 1960s, Ulrich Rückriem has been working with stone blocks, steel plates and slabs, cast iron pieces and wood. The artist’s work revol- ves around the material qualities inherent to these found pieces, which are sourced from quarries and scrap yards, as well as the process by which they evolve into works of art.
Rebecca Warren There Is Another Way, 2011
There is Another Way, 2011, is a large hand-painted bronze sculpture, one in a series of large human figures by Rebecca Warren, which in this instance stands directly on the ground. The painted surface is icing-like, alleviating the object’s bulk. Here and there the blush of warm flesh is picked out amongst the gingham and other patterns suggestive of clothing. There are recognisable elements: a foot, a big toe, as well as less definitive suggestions of a face, an ankle, a clothed torso
Toby Ziegler Self-portrait as reclining nude II, 2017
Toby Ziegler’s Self-Portrait as reclining nude II, 2017, was inspired by Henri Matisse’s painting Large Reclining Nude, 1935, as well as a series of related bronze sculptures. Departing from a digitally modelled prototype, Ziegler produced a clay model by hand which mimicked the aesthetic of a 3D printed artefact. In an interview from 2017, he explains:
Further Sculptures
The sculpture garden
Including permanently installed sculptures by Darren Almond, Ida Ekblad, Günther Förg, Georg Herold, Ernesto Neto, Navid Nuur, Rebecca Warren, Inge Mahn, and Toby Ziegler.
The meadow
Presenting three large-scale bronzes by Georg Herold.
On the hilltop
A short walk from the town centre of Weidingen, the Rodenhof offers spectacular views of the region with sculptures by Albert Oehlen and Rebecca Warren.