CURATOR'S KEY
On Maria Nordman’s Room with two doors (for a public park in Bochum-Weitmar) (1982/1989)
by Anna Gritz
Anna Gritz on Maria Nordman’s Room with two doors ( for a public park in Bochum-Weitmar) (1982/1989)
“The work comes into being in the viewer’s encounter with it – in an unobtrusive kind of participation whose qualities are determined by the history and memory of each visitor, the time of day, the smell, and the season, all of which are in permanent flux. Ambient conditions such as the temperature, how the trees and the shrubbery planted around the building diffuse the light, and the muffled sound of birds are all essential aspects of the work but, of course, beyond the artist’s (and the visitor’s) control.”
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