Sculptures
under the open sky.
Corten steel and bronze for squares, paths and alpine pastures: the shell on Kronplatz, the goats, the mill, the wing, the bee and the horse on the Alpe di Siusi.
Works in the open
Corten steel rusts, bronze darkens — both withstand wind, snow and sun. The works stand beside paths, on squares and up on the alpine pasture.
Free beside the path,
between rock and weather.
In the catalogue the work is called “Muschel auf dem Kronplatz” — the shell on Kronplatz. It stands free beside the path, without a plinth, without a barrier. Rusting Corten steel against rock and forest, and between the steel, golden surfaces that throw the light back. Through the weave you see the sky and the mountain panorama in fragments.
Woven steel,
gold in the rust.
Hundreds of individually cut pieces of steel form the shell. The golden surfaces sit between them at irregular intervals: in sunshine they light up, in rain they disappear into the rust-brown. The surface goes on working — in ten years the sculpture will look different from the way it does today.
First in the middle
of the village.
Before it came to the Via Artis, the shell stood for a few months on the paved square between the houses of Selva di Val Gardena (Wolkenstein). Without the mountain behind it the form read differently: closer to the passer-by, in the middle of village life. Then it was taken up to the path on Kronplatz, where it stands today.
Where is Roland Perathoner’s “Muschel auf dem Kronplatz”?
On the Via Artis at Kronplatz, standing free beside the walking trail. Before that it stood for a few months on the paved square in the centre of Selva di Val Gardena (Wolkenstein) — it is the same shell.
What is the shell made of?
Hundreds of individually cut plates of Corten steel, with golden surfaces set irregularly between them. Corten steel forms a protective layer of rust, and the surface goes on changing over the years. The work measures 300 × 450 cm.
How does the shell stand beside the path?
Free beside the walking trail on the Via Artis, without a plinth and without a barrier. The catalogue gives it as 300 × 450 centimetres of Corten steel: a pierced shell form, open at the foot. Through the steel weave you see the sky and the mountain panorama in fragments.
A work for a square, a courtyard, a garden?
Works for public space grow out of a conversation with the place — scale, material and position are decided together.
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