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Voice from the mountain, 1996

by Kazuo Katase

Installations at the University Hospital
Art in public space

Asymmetrically designed cone shape made of trapezoidal stone slabs stacked on top of each other.

Cone: Anröchter dolomite (quarry between Kassel and Dortmund)
Top: Italian marble;

Weight: approx. 12 tons (of which "stone filling" with gravel, approx. 10-11 tons).

Single plan, circular top.
Dimensions (HxWxD): 450 x 450 x 400 cm

Executing company: Friedrich Gerloff, Naturstein GmbH, Kassel.

University Medical Center Freiburg
between the Neurocenter and the Medical Clinic
Breisacherstraße

In 1996, one year after Tonus, the "Voice from the Mountain" was erected. Made of green-blue Anröchter dolomite, the asymmetrical cone, which has a circular cap of white marble, suggests a snow-covered mountain.3 Formally, the "Stimme vom Berg" forms the end of the view and path axis between the entrance situation on Breisacher Strasse and the adjoining buildings of the University Hospital and at the same time represents a response to the "Tonus" sculpture group standing within sight.

Katase associates the stone form with a megaphone directed towards the earth. However, the work releases a multitude of other associations, which Julia Dold describes: "Memories of natural phenomena that evoke man's fascination and initiate a related reflection on endangerment, but also memories of content from the Christian tradition, in which the mountain always symbolizes closeness to God. " 4

The artist himself also emphasizes the meditative function of his artwork: "People should encounter the mountain in peace, observe it in order to hear their inner voice and feel its existence".5

Kai Fischle

Kazuo Kateseborn 1947 in Shizuoka / Japan. After initial successes with solo exhibitions in Japan, Kazuo Katase moved to Germany in 1975. He had an exhibition at the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus in Munich in 1985, at the Centre National d'Art Contemporian de Grenoble in 1989 and at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York in 1991. In 1992, Katase took part in documenta 9 in Kassel. He has been associated with the city of Freiburg since his exhibition at the Adelhauser Kloster in 1988. The artist has lived and worked in Kassel since 1976.
Tonus (Kazuo Katase)

  1. Tony Cragg, Günther Förg and Ansgar Nierhoff, who, like Katase himself, were all documenta participants, were also asked to submit competition designs.
  2. Kazuo Katase: Tonus, 1995, design for an information board. Fax to the university building authority.
  3. Above a haiku in the snow dome, Katase immortalized his thanks to the pioneers of the overall work, Finance President Peter Körner and Prof. Dr. Hermann Frommhold.
  4. Dold 1996, p. 27.
  5. Quoted from ibid.
Literature

  • Anonymous: The new center - The voice of the mountain. In: amPuls. Staff newspaper of the University Medical Center Freiburg 11/1996.
  • Anonymous: Circle, sphere, wedge and now also cone. Kazuo Katase's work of art at the clinic complete. In: Badische Zeitung of October 12, 1996.
  • Anonymous: Katase and the voice from the mountain. In: Hessische Allgemeine Zeitung from November 2, 1996.
  • Anonymous: The artwork of a Documenta artist will adorn Freiburg University Hospital. In: Schwarzwälder Bote from March 9, 1995.
  • Julia Dold: "Stimme vom Berg", extension of the art work "Tonus" by Kazuo Katase on the square in front of the Medical Clinic at Freiburg University Hospital. In: OFD-Nachrichten 4/ 1996, p. 26 f.
  • Silke Neske: Kazuo Katase: Tonus. Seminar paper, Institute of the Arts, Freiburg University of Education 1997.
  • Brigitte von Savigny: Neurozentrum Freiburg. In: FM 1995, p. 108 110.
  • Stefan Tolksdorf: A ring for neurology. Kazuo Katase's sculpture group "Tonus" is installed at Freiburg University Hospital. In: Badische Zeitung of March 18, 1995.
  • Walter Vetter: Adolf Lorenz, a gifted architect and urban planner. In: Freiburger Almanach 1980, p. 61 70.

Source: Michael Klant: Sculptures in Freiburg - 20th century art in public spaces
mondo Verlag GmbH Freiburg, 1st edition 1998, ISBN 3-922675-76-X.

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