Pedro Cabrita Reis at Blickachsen 13 in the historic Bad Homburg Kurpark and Schlosspark
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Pedro Cabrita Reis is taking part in this year's Blickachsen sculpture project in the Kurpark and Schlosspark Bad Homburg.
Every two years from May to October, "Blickachsen" shows contemporary large-scale sculptures and installations by international artists in the historic parks in the centre of Bad Homburg vor der Höhe as well as in Frankfurt/Main and other locations in the Rhine-Main region. The title of this unique exhibition series is derived from the "axes of vision" laid out by Peter Joseph Lenné in the garden architecture of Bad Homburg's spa gardens in the mid-19th century.
In his sculptures and large-scale sculptural interventions, Pedro Cabrita Reis frequently makes use of building materials such as bricks, fluorescent tubes or aluminium pipes, and also draws on found materials. Precise and playful in equal measure, he creates works which redefine the space and integrate the natural or electric light as constituent elements of the sculpture. His white-coated aluminium construction “Blossom”, specially created for Blickachsen 13, consists of countless interconnected rectangular pipes yet seems, standing in front of the great cedar in the upper garden of the Schlosspark, like dense branchwood springing from its natural surroundings. In this way, the artist translates the everyday and the absence of clarity and order into the beauty of a frozen moment: “I make my way through the world … seeing, hearing, feeling, tasting everything around me, and my art lives off this.”
Photo: Christian Rogge
Blickachsen 13
Ferdinandstraße 19
61348 Bad Homburg v.d.Höhe
Germany