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Hilfestellung
von Wolf von Waldow, Berlin
www.vonwaldow.de

Starting point for my art project in the school sports hall designed by

Hentschel-Oestreich Architekten in Berlin-Pankow (Kniprodestraße 27)

were the large, floor-to-ceiling glass doors, which structure the long

corridors of the building. I took up the contours of the doorframes and

projected them onto the walls like shades. The result is a play of lines,

which breaks up the strong vertical perspective of the architecture.

Simultaneously, the shades define image areas, in which symbolic fig-

ures were depicted, relating to the topic of school sports and the spe-

cial togetherness of the participants. Not only team sports but also

many individual exercises can only been carried out with the support

of others. So the figures in my motifs are in a mutual relation of

dependence, assistance or balance, whereby it is not always clear
who gives assistance to whom. All “shades” were laser-cut from steel,

painted with a dark grey varnish and positioned in front of the wall to

give them a strong sculptural presence. At the permanently open

smoke control doors, where one half of the motif is located behind

glass, I did not work with metal, but “only” with the means of paint-

ing, with the open door leaf acting as a picture frame.

Wolf von Waldow, Berlin

Foto: Rolf Kaliske