Sarah Rechberger
Sonnenbecken
20. August – 1. Januar 2011

As part of the Arnsberg Art Summer, the Kunstverein Arnsberg is opening the "Sonnenbecken" installation by Sarah Rechberger (Vienna/Berlin) in the public space in the "Alter Feld" area next to the Twietebrücke bridge over the Ruhr in Arnsberg

S. Rechberger's project was developed out of a longing to connect the sun with the earth. For this reason, she has scaled the shape of the sun as a ball to a smaller scale and imprinted it as a negative image on and in the earth. As a landing surface for the sun on the earth, so to speak. As the sun's rays are so bright that it is impossible to look into them without aids, the "sun basin" is lined in black to absorb and hold these rays. Just as the pupil of the human eye is the black organ that lets the light into us, the black "sun basin" is, as it were, the human eye of the earth, an "organ" for absorbing the rays that the sun projects onto the earth. A relationship is created between the sun and the earth, but it can also be perceived in its natural environment like a geyser or similar natural event in the meadow floodplains of the "Old Field".
Sarah Rechberger's project "Sonnenbecken" is the first in a series of projects that the Kunstverein Arnsberg will be carrying out with students at the Institute for Spatial Experiments at the UdK in Berlin. The series is the result of an invitation and call for proposals from the Kunstverein Arnsberg.

Sarah Rechberger, born on 22.01.83 in Vienna, is studying Transmedia Art with Prof. Brigitte Kowanz at the University of Applied Arts. She is currently an Erasmus student of Prof. Olafur Eliasson at the Institute for Spatial Experiments at the Berlin University of the Arts.

The project was made possible by the generous support of RWE in Arnsberg and the company Peter Knispel.