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"DEUTZ TWINS" produced in cooperation with the archtects Gatermann+Schossig, Cologne, Germany.
www.gatermann-schossig
Photos of Deutz Twins - copyright Jens Willebrand www.willebrand.com
www.koelntriangle.de
The work has, so to speak a Janus-headed appearance. In the direction of the Ottoplarz in Cologne, Germany, the work is a slim stele approximately 10m high made of finely sanded concrete. The side facing the CologneTriangle shows a classical motif of the artist, i.e. the picture of the twins. In contrast to his paintings, Gross has not however placed the DeutzTwins images mirrored next to each other, but set at an angle of 90 degrees. The horizontal half of the picture of the twins serves as the base of the water basin. The vertical twin appears in contrast as a "fixed image" over which a water spray runs. Consequently, both twins - the artist speaks of a folded out sculpture - are to a certain extend covered with a film of water. DR. CARL HAENLEIN 2006