An art environment for me is a relatively large-scale creative construction that is related to the place of living of the one who makes it. So, building a castle with your own hands is obviously making something large-scale, but not relatively A castle might rank as a creative construction XXL. In , as a young man of less than twenty year old, on a plot of land that belonged to his parents, he already constructed kind of a wooden tower of some 8 m high.
He settled there with his wife he had married in Due to the lack of financial means. In , the national government financed a renovation of the exterior of the castle. Overgrown vegetation has been removed, defects in walls have been corrected, and joints have been renovated. The walls were also provided with a water-repellent layer. Above photo, made in November by Tiramisu Bootfighter who traveled Eastern Europe with his Galerie Ambulante , shows that the castle is still in a good condition.
Labels: singular architecture. The website Habitants-Paysagistes Lille Art Museum has as series of photos by Francis David, which present the site as it original capacity. The garden has been referred to as zoological , and indeed Raymond Guitet has created a number of sculpted animals. But he also made sculptures of personalities, famous ones like Jeanne d' Arc and general leClerc, and allegorical ones like the three wise men hear, see, keep silent After Guitet had passed away in , the garden was no longer cared for.
Apparently no one in the community felt inclined to help maintain the site, so the garden steadily declined. The photo below by Bruno Montpied shows how in May the site looked like.
Labels: garden with sculptures from painted concrete. I agree with these authors, but will present Junker in this blog since he for such a long time has been seen in various respects as an outsider artist. Life and works. Born in Lemgo, Karl Junker early in his life lost his mother, father and brother, and from his seventh he was educated by his grandfather.
