The artist Matthias Bischoff has dedicated himself to the lightness of stone.
He now presented the Berger artwork of the month.
Berg - For ten and a half years, the Berger Kulturverein has been organizing the “Artwork of the Month” series with the Protestant Church, which the Berg community sponsors.
Pastor Johannes Habdank and art historian Katja Sebald, who as curator of the series bridged the last few months with online presentations, are happy to finally welcome their art friends personally again - even if only outdoors, in the front yard of the rectory and in compliance with the hygiene rules.
"We are still in a state of shock," said Sebald when greeting the numerous guests who were finally able to experience art and culture (music by Jörn Kachelriess and Stefan Busch) live last Wednesday. In these times in particular, people need utopias and constructive shaping of the future, emphasized the art historian, in order to counteract the “backward-looking demands for old life”. One means is art, which opens up spaces of possibility and alternatives, which "can explain, stimulate, touch and shake up the world, which above all brings people into conversation and thus makes the world a little bit better".
Enormous technical effort was required to erect the sculpture by the stone sculptor Mattias Bischoff from Wielenbach / Wilzhofen in front of the rectory. It is a nearly two meter high, 30 by 30 centimeter thick stone stele. The upper third seems to float, a two centimeter wide crack divides the stone. The break is covered with gold leaf, the whole thing is illuminated from the inside, so that the crack seems to glow.
Bischoff, who was awarded the Audience Prize at the Schwabacher Kunsttage in 2013, says: “I am fascinated by the weight of the stones.” The artist, who took the plunge into self-employment in 2006, emphasizes that he is rather cautious with the term art.
“The finished object shouldn't need any explanations, just be beautiful.” Just beautiful?
Bischoff makes stones made of granite, basalt or gneiss, weighing tons, float, abolishes the laws of gravity, gives stone blocks lightness and makes them shine.
Astrid Amelungse-Kurth
