Tuesday 25 May 2010
(Sächsische Zeitung)
Messiaen center exists only as a model
By Ralph Schermann
mid-2010 could get funding and start construction. That was a hope that told of the establishment of the European memorial and meeting center in Zgorzelec. She was raised in July 2009, when the concept of architect Ruairi O'Brien a competition won. For the implementation, however, it remained far from hope. Last week the 48-year-old put his ideas again in front of Görlitz.
the center is planned on the site of the former POW camp Stalag VIIIa, dedicated to French composer Olivier Messiaen . This completed 1940/41 there as a soldier his "Quartet for the End of Time". Time and space inspired "Messiaen Meeting Point Music" O'Brien also for this. He created with funds from the architecture of unexpected forms of dialogue between interior and exterior, above and below, put into open and closed secrets played on top of that with acoustic effects. The ease of being confronted with the seriousness of life, without being overwhelmed by this somehow.
islands with deep impact
The effects open up to the viewer already in the model. Separated by a grove of trees facing each other on an island of memory and an island of hope. Although the force of the future, a proud 25-meter high Messiaen House is still delicate broken, the opposing theater in the form of a tube is not the same as those seen, but the point is made: From commemoration arises from hope, light and new life. Thus the old root stock will be in a congenial connection with Messiaen's Quartet, a staple of the past, hope and Future. "A positive connection," Albrecht Goetze it gets to the point. The musicologist has in Görlitz together the threads of the project.
It would be a pity if the subtle approach would be crushed between mills financial naivety. O'Brien has offered a detail durchkonzipiertes work of art that the joint city Görlitz / Zgorzelec could give a unique consistency. From as European size, a red metal pad on the Neisse River, or once there, woven "deliberative observer" would be miles away. The reason seems simple: the artist uses the protected area of architecture for From an intellectual-confrontation. This offers the opportunity to make the Messiaen-center not only for decorative or purely functional. O'Brien there is in fact no matter where you are physically the door: "Access has to work his head," he expressed. And then there is in the Tower then find seminars and workshops and empty spaces as places of gathering thoughts.
Germany as an opportunity
The Dublin-born Ruairi O'Brien was once a Jewish professor in Edinburgh so sensitized to Germany that he saw the fall of the wall without knowledge of language as an opportunity for my artistic expansion. The London and New York graduated high school teacher, cartoonist and architect has long overwhelmed as a world artist with prices, has lived since 1991 in Dresden, is a visiting professor in Wismar and head of an architecture, lighting and art studios. His references and publications fill volumes. Görlitz / Zgorzelec should belong to.
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