Arte e Cultura
FOR FOREST Due to Be Unveiled in Austria This September
Overseen by Enea Landscape Architecture, around 300 trees, some weighing up to six tons each, will be carefully transplanted over the existing football pitch to give the impression of a native central European forest. Once transplanted the forest will take on a life of its own, change colours as the season turns and attract wildlife.
Seating up to 30,000 spectators, the surroundings of Wörthersee Stadium will dramatically shape the visitor experience. From 10am until 10pm daily, audiences will experience a unique panorama of trees, day and night, under natural light or by floodlight. Encountering FOR FOREST will trigger a multiplicity of responses and emotions, and depending on the time of day or night the trees will form an ever-changing landscape.
After the free art intervention at the stadium ends on 27 October 2019 , the forest will be carefully replanted on a public site in close proximity to Wörthersee Stadium at a scale of 1:1 and remain as a living 'forest sculpture'. Parallel to this, a pavilion will be built in order to document the project for the long-term.
The journey to realising FOR FOREST traces a line back to exhibitions Littmann curated and produced such as (with Jehle) in 1982 in Basel ; , Basel 2003; , Vigo, 2008; , Lyon , 2011; (touring installation), 2010-2012 ( Switzerland )/ 2015-2016 ( China ) and , Basel 2018. These projects among others reveal Littmann's longstanding interest in the relationship of popular culture with art.
Born in 1951, Klaus Littmann lives and works in Basel, Switzerland . Littmann studied at Düsseldorf Art Academy with Josef Beuys and established himself as a mediator of contemporary art.
Max Peintner was born in 1937 in Hall in Tirol ( Austria ) and lives and works in Vienna . Peintner studied civil engineering at the Technical University of Vienna and architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
FOR FOREST
9 September – 27 October 2019
Wörthersee Stadium
Südring 207
9020 Klagenfurt
Austria
Open 10am – 10pm | Daily (including public holidays) | Free Entry
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FOR FOREST is made possible thanks to Swiss private supporters, contributions in kind, as well as the patronage of trees.
Image credit: Max Peintner , , pencil drawing, 1970/71, hand-coloured by Klaus Littmann in 2018, unique print from series
Photo: https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/881028/The_Unending_Attraction_of_Nature.jpg