Sculptures illuminate the Bruck vests

There is already a sculpture path in the city center. Now light sculptures should also be in the west of Bruck. After a competition, four works will be shown on a trial basis. Citizens can decide which of them the city will buy next year.

Fürstenfeldbruck - LED tubes that light up when you touch them, a helix that raises questions, illuminated conductor tracks and a rotating stele: All of these light sculptures are entries in the “Stadtkunstland 2020” competition, which the city has launched. Derriks Cultural Foundation acts as curator. The competition committee selected four entries from seven submitted works.

On his "Gimmeabreak Helix" - translated "give me a break" - Christoph Hildebrand asks human questions to the viewer. Ask them to think about where they're from and where they're going. A topic that comes up again and again, especially in times of crisis, but also at the regulars' table, among friends or among young people at the beginning of their life.

“Gimmeabreak” poses questions of life.

A sculpture glows with solar energy

Siegfried Kreitner's “VIII 2019” stele is concerned with the climate crisis. The minimal kinetic sculpture converts sunlight into electricity with four solar elements - the work moves at different speeds depending on the light intensity. It is also the only sculpture that does not need a power supply.

Stele VIII 2019 works with solar cells.

The "Macrocontroller" by Carolin Liebl & Nikolas Schmied-Pfähler is an oversized circuit board with copper conductor tracks with colorful LED lights. It is reminiscent of a city's transport network, in which colorful lights sparkle. The work stands for digitization, the interfaces stand for the national network and Fürstenfeldbruck's cosmopolitanism.

The macro controller should stand for digitization and a cosmopolitan Fürstenfeldbruck.

Anne Pfeifer & Bernhard Kreutzer offer an interaction with the viewer with "Let three be light": The LED light strips light up when at least two viewers touch the steel body and thus form a circuit with the sculpture. There is no risk of electric shock.

This is how the citizens can inspect the sculptures

"These four works will be set up every two weeks in autumn," explains curator Gerhard Derriks. The locations are at Stadtwerke, Westpark, Buchenauer Platz and Martin-Luther-Straße, opposite the Viscardi-Gymnasium. At three locations there is the possibility of connecting the sculptures to the power grid via lanterns.

The citizens have enough time to discover the light sculptures and let them work on them. In the summer of 2021, citizens will be asked which light sculpture the city should acquire and permanently erect. The cultural foundation also wants to provide the city with a work on permanent loan. "It would be best to keep all four," says Derriks. "We will try to do more with it." At the moment one is in talks with potential donors.

Incidentally, the light sculptures are not the first works of art in Bruck's west. In the area of ​​the future city park there is already "Mikado" - a work by Ingrid Hornef. Now it is getting company soon.

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