As a child and adolescent, Adrian Till visited Pöcking several times. Now the 25-year-old has left his professional, or better said artistic, traces in the lake community. Born in Dachau, he won the municipality's tender for the first design of the concrete wall on the staircase to the club house. “Art in architecture at Beccult” is the name of the project initiated by cultural advisor Albert Luppart.
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- Luppart had displeased that the gray concrete wall had been misused in the first Corona year for graffiti against the pandemic requirements. His idea of having the dreary surface artistically designed, constantly changing it over and over again, met with approval from the local council. A competition was announced and prize money of 1000 euros was awarded. A good handful of applications were received, reminded Mayor Rainer Schnitzler on Friday at the public presentation of the work of art. After only two works were left to choose from, the jury unanimously decided in favor of Adrian Till's work.
The corona restrictions delayed implementation. The Munich-based artist, who has been working as a freelance artist since 2015, did not hesitate for long and applied his award-winning design to the concrete using spray cans and paint rollers. On Friday the mayor praised the “great idea” of his deputy, congratulated the artist, handed over the prize money of 1000 euros - not in cash, but as a promise of a bank transfer - and introduced the interpretation of the work. While taking a walk, his wife claims to have recognized a woman lying down on the mural, "who hugs the staircase parapet". However, that was not the artist's request. In his work description, which can be read on a board attached to the concrete wall, it says:“The painting shows the representation of graphic forms in organic and geometric execution. In addition to the reference to the strict building architecture, the organic forms reveal themselves in a meeting, layering, superimposing and complementing. In combination with color, the whole picture becomes something alive, something real. Something that flows together, comes together, meets and energizes - a meeting point, an exchange, a place. The Beccult. "The Beccult. "The Beccult. "
On site, Till explained that art does not have to be pleasing.
It should encourage reflection and discussion.
Albert Luppart added that art in architecture does not want to be an eye-catcher, but rather to provoke where possible and provide material for discussion.
Some local councilors were present at the presentation of the work, the jury and honorary citizens Ameli Erhard and Ralf Kirberg.
The latter spoke of an “excellent idea” and a reminiscence of a controversial art project a little more than ten years ago.
At that time, as chairman of the German branch of the international network "sculpture network", he suggested that a work by the American artist Peter Lundberg be set up on the Schlosswiese in Possenhofen that the community had acquired.
With that he had sparked a controversial debate.
Till's work can be admired at the Beccult until the end of next year.
Then the concrete wall should be put out to tender again as a canvas for a new work of art, said Luppart: "We want living art that Beccult keeps renewing." apply.
