Hedgehog
Künstler/in
Eva Grubinger
(geb. 1970 in Salzburg)
Date2014-2015
ClassificationsSkulptur
MediumEiche lasiert, Stahl
DimensionsH: 47 cm, DM: 44 cm
Credit LineArtothek des Bundes
Object number28337
DescriptionBlending into the landscape by looking not just at its natural dimension, but also its historical and ideological ones, can also inspire new shapes. A few years ago I found out about a little-known place in the Austrian Alps, known as the Hedgehog. It served as a hideout for resistance fighters between 1943 and 1945. The Hedgehog opens up the view toward the opposing mountain, in which there were salt mines where looted art from all over Europe was hidden during the war. Through further research I came across the collection of Oscar Bondy, which was also stolen and moved into the mine, and later saved with the help of the men hiding at the Hedgehog. The round, spiky shape of the little wooden sculpture I was finally able to install there in 2015—seventy years after the end of the Nazi regime—derives from a much smaller,
but similarly designed object that Bondy once owned, and is still missing today. [...]Aus: In the Flow: A Conversation with Eva Grubinger; Catalogue "Malady of the Infinite", Belvedere 21, Vienna, 2019
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