Bücherturm

Material

Marble; 153 x 45 x 30 cm

Datierung

2002-2004

About the artwork

Fourteen stones from all five continents. From top to bottom: Brazilian blue quartz, Greek white marble, USA pink granite, Indian granite, Brazilian granite, Sardinia pink granite, Norwegian green quartz, Brazilian green quartz, Italian red marble, Pakistan marble, German Odenwald quartz, Indian red granite, Brazilian Brecia granite, African black granite.

About the artist

Anna Kubach-Wilmsen and Wolfgang Kubach have been collaborating as stone sculptors since 1968. They’ve completed large-sized sculptures at home and abroad and participated in numerous international symposia on stone sculpture. Their works have been shown in exhibitions worldwide, including Japan and the USA. Since 1996 they have been working on a sculpture park in Bad Münster am Stein, in collaboration with the Japanese architect Tadao Ando. To facilitate this project they created the Fondation Kubach-Willmsen Museum and the stone sculpture park in Bad Münster am Stein in 1998. The Kubach-Willmsen oeuvre is a 40 year old homage to stone as an organic material and architecture supplied by nature. Their work exclusively considers stone as an archetype, which the artists consider to be a relic of a millennia-long natural history.