2022-10-12
Katharina Grosse visits Derix
There is something pretty special about seeing an artist working on her project, as we experienced recently in sunny Taunusstein near Wiesbaden.
Katharina Grosse spent a day at Derix Glasstudios, to work together with Derix’s glass experts on the huge panels and the many details of her new artwork made exclusively for the Reinhard Ernst Museum. We´re talking about 64 square meters of coloured glass, where no centimeter resembles the other: Cutting edges here are sometimes soft and other times hard, front and backside being open to different interpretations, while the transparent sections function as windows to new spaces..
“It is intentional that there are different storylines and continuous shifts in this artwork” Katharina Grosse tells our director, “Although the work as a whole is always visible”. Her glass artwork acts as a perfect room separator for the Farblabor (“Color lab”) on the ground floor, where in the near future school classes and teenagers will sojourn. Katharina Grosse’s artwork welcomes getting in touch with art and creativity, while also allowing the sun to cast reflections on the floor, giving this work yet another dimension.
This cooperation between the glass manufacturer Derix and Katharina Grosse is the result of a working partnership. “Watching this merging process is great fun” raves Grosse. It’s her first work using glass as a medium, and the results are making her happy and proud.
All individual parts are currently being joined, and the seven separate panels are being prepared for their installation in the museum.
We cannot wait to keep you posted on when these incredibly heavy while absolutely fragile panels will be brought to their destination.