Monheim am Rhein. Markus L\u00fcpertz\u2019s \u201cLeda\u201d is here! The monumental contemporary interpretation of the legendary figure \u201cG\u00e4nseliesel\u201d, which is a coat-of-arms motif and an important landmark of the city of Monheim, was ceremoniously unveiled on September 21, 2019, on the banks of the Rhine directly beneath the landscape balcony. Standing on a 7.50 m-high plinth, the 3.60 m painted bronze sculpture forms an imposing landmark on the riverside promenade, visible from afar. At the same time as Leda was unveiled, a retrospective exhibition opened in the halls opposite of the future K714 cultural refinery. It will be on view until October 31, 2019, and documents the creative process from the Monheim G\u00e4nseliesel to Markus L\u00fcpertz\u2019s sculpture \u201cLeda\u201d. The successful staging of the exhibits in the listed former Shell hall was decisively supported by AMECKO, the exhibition stand builder from Oberhausen.<\/p>\n\n
Commissioned by Monheimer Kulturwerke, AMECKO took on the conceptualization, planning, and implementation of the presentation areas for the drawings and designs, which the exhibition shows alongside other stages in the artwork\u2019s development, for example in the form of plaster models and woodcuts. \u201cA particular challenge was that it is a listed building. That means we had to build the walls for hanging the pictures as freestanding structures, taking structural calculations into account,\u201d reports Klaus Zittrich, Managing Director of AMECKO GmbH.
A total of around 150 meters of wall length was constructed with a wooden substructure, clad with panels and crack-bridging filler, then wallpapered with cotton wallpaper and painted white. At the rear, the 5 m-high wall structure was secured with 1,000-liter water tanks as ballast.
A personal highlight of the exhibition \u201cMarkus L\u00fcpertz \u2013 Leda\u201d for the AMECKO team is the poem on a central stele in the entrance area that Markus L\u00fcpertz left to welcome visitors. \u201cThrough the artist\u2019s poem, the exhibition construction itself was, in a way, elevated to art. For us, the L\u00fcpertz retrospective is a fantastic opening for the future K714 cultural refinery, which the hall on the former Shell site will be transformed into,\u201d says Klaus Zittrich. \u201cA venue complex for up to 4,000 concertgoers is being created\u2014a modern place of culture that continues to reveal the outline of the original listed building and thus builds a bridge to history\u2014somewhat like Markus L\u00fcpertz\u2019s contemporary depiction of Monheim\u2019s old landmark, the G\u00e4nseliesel.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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