Kubach-Wilmsen

 

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https://www.fondation-kubach-wilmsen.de/

 

The artist duo Kubach-Wilmsen, consisting of Anna Kubach-Wilmsen, born in 1937, and Wolfgang Kubach, born in 1936, are known for their stone sculptures, in particular their stone books.

 

Anna Kubach-Wilmsen and Wolfgang Wilmsen have been working together as stone sculptors since 1968. As early as 1976, they discovered the stone book as their general theme. Using different stones from all over the world, they initially created the book in all sizes, types and states; the book scroll, the fallen book "Icarus", the book stacked up to form a book tower and finally the book ruin. But the artist duo's work is also about the content of the book, the word, whether written or printed, followed by the other carriers of the word: the newspaper, the single sheet, the blackboard, the "Support des Rèves", a collapsed pile of paper, the letter and finally the monitor, which, like all the aforementioned media, can also carry the image in addition to the word.

The artist duo creates sculptures of various sizes in Switzerland and abroad and takes part in international stone sculpture symposia. Their works have been shown internationally in numerous exhibitions from Japan to the USA.

In 1998, the artist couple founded the Fondation Kubach-Wilmsen as a non-profit foundation to create a stone sculpture museum. They made around 15,000 square meters of land in Bad Münster am Stein available for this purpose. 65 of their stone sculptures form the cornerstone of the museum project. In 2010, the world-famous architect Tadao Ando from Osaka was recruited for the stone sculpture museum. The building, which is regarded as the only contemporary stone sculpture museum in the world, opens in the same year.

Wolfgang Kubach dies in 2007, Anna Kubach-Wilmsen in 2021.

 

아름다운 스톤북스 작품들을 만든 독일의 듀오조각가. 독일에 그들의 작품을 전시하기 위해 안도타다오가 만든 뮤지엄이 있다고 한다. 우연히 아트페어에서 아름다운 하늘색 돌로 만들어진 책을 발견하고 찾아본 작품들이다. 종이라는 물성과는 먼 곳에 있는 단단한 돌을 이용해서 책을 표현한 것이 흥미롭고, 전세계의 다양한 돌을 사용해서 여러가지 색과 무늬를 표현한 것도 좋다. 여러 권 쌓여있는 책들보다는 책등이 보이게 뒤집어 놓은 한 권의 책을 조각한 작품들이 굉장히 매력적이다. 

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