TWINS
FRANK SCHRÖDER
The sculptor Jürgen Knubben creates unique steel pieces, small and large, handy and monumental, for indoor and outdoor use. Some are connected in series to form ensembles. Of the others, there is a second, a counterpart, a doppelganger, a partner forming a singular collective. Over time, numerous unique twinnable pieces have accumulated in the artist's work. These interacting pairs are now being brought together in an exhibition entitled TWINS. In the 1910s, Constantin Brâncuși had the idea of building an infinity column in the sky, and in 1920 he presented an early wooden version. One of the artist's trademarks, however, was "The Endless Pillar" for the Romanian city of Târgu Jiu, which was built there at the end of 1937. This almost 30-meter high monument consists of diamond-like steel elements stacked with a gold-plated brass exterior. Jürgen Knubbens' column variations, arranged in pairs, refer to this endless Brâncușis column. Due to the conical inflow of most of the columns, intended as a tribute to Brâncuși, the artist abandons the idea of the column and creates objects that play with rhombic layering, but are always suspended in the obelisk and pyramidal construction
Kurfürstliche Burg Burgplatz 2 56154 Boppard am Rhein Tel: 0 67 42-801 59 84 museum@boppard.de
08 November 2020 - 28 February 2021