{"id":3958,"date":"2023-09-26T09:55:06","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T07:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legacy.museum-reinhard-ernst.de\/?p=3958"},"modified":"2023-10-03T22:08:09","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T20:08:09","slug":"colour-fireworks-katharina-grosses-work-in-the-reinhard-ernst-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.museum-reinhard-ernst.de\/en\/news\/colour-fireworks-katharina-grosses-work-in-the-reinhard-ernst-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Colour Fireworks: Katharina Grosse\u2019s Work in the Reinhard Ernst Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mission accomplished! With great care, a team from Derix Glasstudios have safely installed the ton-heavy yet fragile glass panels of Katharina Grosse\u2019s work \u201cEin Glas Wasser, bitte\u201d (A Glass of Water, Please) in the museum. Learn all about this highly complex and exciting undertaking, and how we mastered the challenge.<\/p>\n

What are the difficulties of bringing in such a heavy and fragile work of art?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Glass of Water, Please is the title of Katharina Grosse\u2019s very first work on glass, which she created in exclusivity for the Museum Reinhard Ernst in cooperation with Derix Glass Studios from Taunusstein.<\/p>\n

Find out more about the work\u2019s making process here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The work spreads over 839 cm in width and 400 cm in height. However, even though the museum’s premises promise one thing above all \u2013 size \u2013 it is no easy undertaking to transport the glass panels from the trailer to their destination. Especially not when this task is carried out on a construction site. We held our breath as the fragile glass panels were transported by an assembly robot into the museum. The individual parts were then inserted into the designated holders with millimetre precision.<\/p>\n

Museum founder Reinhard Ernst attended the installation work on site: \u201cSeeing Katharina Grosse\u2019s work being installed in the museum foyer was a special experience for me. The creation of this work, from the first draft to the finished artwork, took over two years. A highly complex process that I followed with great interest. The installation of the work marks an important milestone in the completion of the museum.\u201d<\/p>\n