The Hildesheim sculptor and contact artist Moritz Bormann is no stranger to many employees at Arbeit und Dritte Welt. Mutual visits to workshops and studios laid the foundations for an intensive working relationship several years ago.
An exhibition by Bormann at our premises and a four-week contact art event in the circus tent on our premises led to a workshop sponsored by the Johannishof Foundation, which resulted in the creation of the large kinetic steel sculpture “ Air Jump”. This has stood and rotated next to the facade of our workshop ever since.
Bormann was not the only one who was taken with the collaboration: in late summer, we were able to welcome him back to our premises. With the collaboration of Rainer Schimberle and the support of our colleagues from the metalworking shop, Bormann produced the sculpture Icarus, a commissioned work. The techniques with which Bormann works and his concept of developing solutions from practical experience are interesting and educational for our metalworkers. A meeting in Bormann’s studio in Garbolzum is planned next.
