Platzhirsch 2024
Site specific installation at Schloss Eggenberg, Vorchdorf, Austria
In the framework of European Capital of Culture Salzkammergut 2024
Marit Wolters, Platzhirsch, 2024, Concrete, hunting trophy, table cloths, screen print, plaster, Dimensions variable
Marit Wolters, Platzhirsch, 2024, Concrete, hunting trophy, table cloths, screen print, plaster, Dimensions variable
Marit Wolters, Platzhirsch (detail), 2024, Hunting trophy, approx. 35x25 cm
Marit Wolters, Platzhirsch, 2024, Concrete, hunting trophy, table cloths, screen print, plaster, Dimensions variable
Marit Wolters, Platzhirsch (detail), 2024, Table cloth, screen print, Various dimensions
Marit Wolters, Platzhirsch (detail), 2024, Plaster, styrofoam, 17x10x10 cm and 21x12x12 cm
People create a wide variety of architecture to protect themselves from their environment, to make it usable or to design it according to their own needs and ideas. In European palaces, architectural ideas began to be transferred to garden design as early as the Baroque period - garden architecture was born. The growth of nature was cultivated and symbolized the power that rulers were able to exert over their environment. Even today, this strongly geometric form of design still shapes our idea of a castle park. For aristocratic hunts, which were used to exercise and demonstrate power, temporary architecture made of cloth was stretched between poles and trees. This made it possible to round up the game, which could no longer escape the deadly shots. If an animal did escape, it had “slipped through the cracks” (German: "durch die Lappen gegangen").