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PAX 2008, Augsburg

CHANGE OF LOCATION, PAX 08, Augsburg peace party, city hall square, Augsburg, in 2008
Annually, 8th of August the city of Augsburg celebrates the announcement of the Augsburg religious peace of 1555. To this occasion a peace board is furnished on the city hall square to which all citizens of the town are invited.
In 2008 Mathias Wolf was asked by the city of Augsburg to create an installation on the central place of Augsburg, the city hall square. He developed a space-reaching net installation and thread installation from blue harvest thread. The temporary piece of art visualised the content draught and central topic of interest change of location of the Augsburg peace programme of events Pax in 2008.
With the construction the ways of the emigrants were symbolised. Outgoing from the building of the city administration a complicated form play of the twist and reversal from threads and nets developed. Lines cruise, overlap, meet. In addition, the installation was an expression of the movement. Because emigrating and migration is called: move. Like the bow of an emigrant's ship the head of the net object points forwards to the horizon...