Passage-Cornelia Konrads

Passage

Cornelia Konrads

Passage
2007
Installation on a forest clearing
Branches, steelrope, iron
4.0 x 2.0 x 0.6 m

      Konrads works in the field of artists such as Andy Goldsworthy and Rob Mullholland, responding to nature by presenting a way for the viewer, or more commonly, visitor, to reexamine their relationship to place through site-specific installations. Gateways feature heavily within Konrads’ work - Passage, installed in a forest clearing in Germany, provides a literal pathway back into nature. Returning cut-down branches to the cleared area, Konrads provides a direct, graceful and yet playful link between our own interventions into nature and the beauty of the nearby untouched wilderness. Crafted from branches mounted upon an iron frame and suspended with steel rope, the installation forms a roughly organized door frame before drifting upwards and outwards, almost camouflaged by the surrounding woodlands.

      Artist Cornelia Konrads creates sculptures that blend with nature and defies gravity. She works with natural materials in a natural environment. Her work is frequently punctuated by the illusion of weightlessness, where stacked objects like logs, fences, and doorways appear to be suspended in mid-air, reinforcing their temporary nature as if the installation is beginning to dissolve before your very eyes.

     "Calm and motion, dissolution and density, the contrastive play with gravity and overcoming it, with reality and simulation—are the stones really flying up into the sky, or are they not perhaps falling down and settling on the pile? Rising or falling - that is the question."--Carnelia Konrads

  Cornelia Konrads is a German artist who focuses on creating site-specific installations in public spaces, sculpture parks as well as private gardens all around the world. She mainly uses materials available at a specific place and time such as rocks, logs or branches, which reinforces the temporary nature of her works. Her land art frequently consists in making mind-boggling installations that appear to be floating mid-air, but also includes permanent sculptures playing with reality.

     I love seeing this work of art because it is truly defying gravity and reality. It fits in well in this gallery because it makes you stop and shake your head on what it truly real or not.