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Sigmar Polke's Windows for the Zurich Grossmunster (Paperback)
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Sigmar Polke's Windows for the Zurich Grossmunster (Paperback)
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Sigmar Polke (born 1941) recently completed a series of 12 windows
for the Grossmunster cathedral in Zurich, setting new standards for
the mutual relationship between art and church. One group of seven
Romanesque windows shows luminous mosaics of thinly sliced agate,
some of it artificially colored, to produce pulsating blocks of
back-lit color. Says Marina Warner, "The interior of rocks opens
not only on unexpected colors... on once imprisoned now
scintillating rays and gleams, but it also tunnels into the past,
into the distant past of geological and cosmological millennia."
For the remaining five windows, Polke designed images of figures
from the Old Testament, based on medieval illuminations, which have
themselves undergone transformation in the course of their long
journey through time. Polke's figures now appear as radiantly
contemporary icons created in colored glass, using a variety of
traditional and customized techniques devised especially for this
project.
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