(*1948, DE)
Fenster, 1998
Steel
800 × 1000 × 15 cm

Fenster, or Window, was conceived and produced for the park of the Museum Dhondt-Dhaens in Deurle, Belgium. This monumental steel work, placed vertically, tends nevertheless to disappear, depending on the vantage point, and to allow the landscape to appear instead. The cross within the frame evokes a window just as much as a stretcher for a horizontally oriented painting (often called a landscape format). The sculpture distances itself from abstraction, and functions instead like John Cage’s 4’33”, in which listening to silence is limited by the specific timeframe itself. Fenster defines different landscapes depending on the different movements of the park visitors.