A Journey to the Heart of the Stone

This Friday, Susanne Tunn and Knut Wold, together with their assistant David Svoboda, forsook the sanctuary of their quarry to come and tell us about their work. Knut Wold made the start, presenting different projects like putting huge stones sculptures into old houses without leaving any traces of how they got there, enticing the viewer to wonder about it. He also talked about the project he is consultant for. Sculptures made by artists and architects he can pick, are placed next to famous long-distance roads in Norway, sometimes in midst of snow or steep slopes. One he talked about in more detail featured a work about witch trials by Louise Bourgeois, consisting of a burning chair surrounded by mirrors reflecting the fire, encased in a hut made of black glass.

Knut Wold met her during his stay in New York around the year 2000, where he caught the eye of an associate of hers while working on a sculpture made from turf in a sculpture park in Queens that was placed in the Hudson river and gradually washed away with the tides. One day, he was told Louise Bourgeois was interested in his work and wanted to meet him. Susanne Tunn, who has been with the stone sculptor symposium in Fürstenbrunn since the year 1992 and decided to invite Knut Wold this year to teach the class with her, talks about her relationship with the stone, but how she also likes to use different materials that “ are temporary.

I like materials that return to the circle to be reused, or are reused by me.” She always approaches a project via the material. For example, her contribution to an exhibition about the Varus battle was melted tin spilled all over the floor of a barn. This started from the thought that the most-found remains of the battle are rests of bronze weaponry, which is partly made of tin. She also likes to drag the viewers into unusual places with her sculptures. With this, she succeeds, seeing the number of people that came to visit their quarry the next day.