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Bienebär, “Figurenbeute”
Pyrenäenbär Albert II Artist: Birgit Maria Jönssen Marc, close to Ausaß, Toulouse F Material: Wood
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My thoughts on Europe.
Art moves Europe’ is the name of the path to the goal, a united Europe. Now the Brexit has us an ‘arm torn out’ if I take the logo of the movement:
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But the new ‘Europa’ is not so much balancing on the bull, which I will come to later, no, she is sitting firmly in the saddle with her chest swinging, buzzed by bees and riding ahead. Yes, I could even imagine a hand on the reins.
The engine of Europe is not only Germany and France, but the art, ‘art moves’ of all Europe. And if we look beyond the borders, to America, China and Russia, then Russia is a moving moment in our gears. Because, and now I come to the bull, if we and imagine that Europe rides it, she is in a hot saddle: Belarus and Ukraine. Europe means, if we believe wikipedia once more: ‘the one with the wide view’. At the moment in Corona politics it is called ‘riding on sight’. And what do I see there? The next Apimondia, that is, the next World Bee Congress is in Russia. In 2022, when we walk 10 thousand kilometers and more on our European Sculpture Trail, perhaps it will be permissible to look briefly beyond the horizon, with a glimpse into the world of bees.
The world of bees opens already with a look into one of my beehive sculptures. Throughout Europe, my workshop has set up sculptures enlivened by their clients. For our trip on the European Sculpture Trail, I would like to hike the Pyrenean bear Albert II. He stands at 1000m altitude in the 5 soul village of Marc, above Ausaß, near Toulouse. His nose, full of bees he raises, scenting a trail in the direction of Andorra
Albert II was created at a time when bears were trained in the French Pyrenees. Not to the delight of hunters and shepherds. Even on my visit in 2017, crosshairs with bear heads were still sprayed on the rock walls of the pass roads. There is still a lot of resistance. And if we consider that Bear Bruno was also shot in Germany after 170 years, since no bear was to be found on German soil, we need not look to France in fright.But the book ‘They are back. Bär, Luchs und Wolf erleben’ by Ralf Bürglin, published in 2015, gives us hope that Europe will once again have the ‘courage to go wild’, as Hubert Weinzierl once so beautifully put it. This also includes bees. They have become socially acceptable in recent years. This is also proven by the rediscovery of the figure hives. They already played a role in the 18th century. What at that time found its spread only in the middle Eastern Europe, there is today everywhere, but hardly anyone knows them, the sculptures, with bees in the belly.
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