Art and Exercise

Of course, we're on the bikes again.

There's an exhibit in Delmenhorst at the Haus Coburg.  We've been there before (see here and here) more than a few times, and it's always a bit weird and much more than a bit interesting.

So, off with our favorite biking crew.

Right away on the other side of the river, we encountered a new piece of art on the way to see more art.  It's a cross to commemorate that the village is along a pilgrimage route.   Cows add to the atmosphere, but I don't think they make pilgrimages.

Werner and I are quite relaxed when we bike - lots of little pauses and stops to take pictures and have a sip of water or munch on some chocolate.  But not these folks, noooooooooo.  We pedal and pedal and keep on pedaling.  So it's a good ninety minutes getting to Delmenhorst, practically without taking a breath much less a chocolate break.

When we arrived we were more than ready for lunch and landed in a nice place situated on the outer dry moat of the old castle.  Nothing is left of the old castle, but there's a bronze sculpture with details of the old site.

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So, to the museum.  The title of the current show is "alles nicht sichtbar"  or  "everything is not obvious." Or perhaps "everything is not what it seems."  True.

A major part of the exhibit was the artist's copies of ordinary things.  But these are not copies from a copier, but rather exact, hand-made, hand-colored, hand-lettered original copies of the original print.  Like I said, they do some weird stuff there.  This was particularly mind bending.

This is a hand-made original of a book jacket from an old library book, including the little tears and worn places and sun-faded parts of the jacket. So, an original copy. What? Ane Mette Hol, the artist, must have the most incredible patience and the steadiest hand in the universe,

 

Original "copies" of gray cardboard.  Hand made, hand colored.

The other artist (Jan Schmidt) made this installation that was created by the machine he used to cut marble.  As he moved the machine along the floor, the marble dust from the cuttings made this pattern.  When the exhibit is over, they'll sweep it up and that art installation will be gone. Forever.

Art is not static.  Here, a close up of where some little animals walked across the marble dust.  So weird!! Interactive art!!

Here the artist covered the floor of this room with microscope slides.  DO NOT WALK HERE.

And finally, graphite sculptures.  These are at most 4 inches high, all formed on a lathe.  The shavings were used to make yet other art, spilled on paper to leave their traces.

I did not take a picture of our guide, a (very) young man who hopes to study graphic art next year at college.  He was so full of information and answered all our questions and because of him we could grasp what the concept of the artists was about.  And he had the most incredible eyebrows! Really! Someone should have drawn them.  With a lathed graphite stylus. And put them in the show.