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KlavierrahmenPiano FrameHoffnung ist die Fähigkeit, die Musik der Zukunft zu hörenHope is the ability to hear the music of the future |
Norbert Huppertz & Petra Michel-Neumann
2022 |
As a reminder of the July 2021 flood, a piano frame found in the rubble has been set up as a work of art, with two hands made of steel bars playing the instrument (one of these has already disappeared).
The artist Petra Michel-Neumann is a sister-in-law of Willy Delhaes, the original owner of the piano, who had inherited the instrument from his grandfather and stored it in his basement. During the flood, there was 2.2 metres of water in that basement and the piano could not be saved.
The idea: a symbol to commemorate the flood disaster. "I wanted to show what nature can leave behind, because we are very powerless against nature. That is why we left the rest of the piano frame as it was left by nature," explains Norbert Huppertz.
But a small detail was added. Ten steel bars were formed into two hands and placed in front of the piano frame. "The hands are meant to symbolise that they are there for the music of the future. But also only because there were helping hands during this dramatic time," says Petra Michel-Neumann.
The quotation is from the Croatian theologian Peter Kuzmic.
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„Hoffnung ist die Fähigkeit, |
Hope is the ability to hear the music of the future Peter Kuzmic In memory of the flood disaster July 2021 Planned and designed by the artists Norbert Huppertz and Petra Michel-Neumann |
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