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Henry Moore: Where sheep cuddle with tons of heavy sculptures

Heal the art world, even in the lambs to graze. In English, Perry Green, the Henry invites you to the Moore Foundation for the art walk in the countryside. From there, the works of the new exhibition in the Arp Museum Rolandseck.



A trip to the country-seat of Perry Green is like a nooner. And in the truest sense of the word: On the green lawn in the sculpture Park, the Henry Moore Foundation dozing lambs between huge Moore sculptures. The 1986 deceased sculptor who is celebrated in the UK as a state artist, put yourself in the lovely parkland to the West of London.

70 acres of Land he bought in the 40 years that he lived with his wife Irina in the village of Perry Green, together, in order to present his sculptures under the open sky. In the middle of sheep pastures, which reach to the horizon. The dialogue with nature was important to him.

Art, on the sheep meadow

In the hamlet of Perry Green, Henry Moore fled in the turmoil of the Second world war. Actually, he wanted himself and his family from the bomb to the German attacks. But then he remained there.

A view into the Green: Double Oval from the 1966

Also because of the sheep, which he observed and recorded. When you walk through the meadows of Perry Green you come to the “Sheep Piece”, one of the sculptures, which placed Moore on the sheep pasture, as the shelter for the sheep that cower there comfortably – or at the sculpture rubbing. The approach to art in the green surroundings of the Henry Moore Foundation is therefore a gauntlet.

On the floor of a special land mines: sheep excrement. The sheep was in the art of Henry Moore’s more as a decorative accessory. In 1972, he began his first sheep drawings should fill a whole book. He studied their movement, their transformation, if you lose the shears their wool, and to contour win and a new body is given to. One could say that The sheep represents Moore everything of interest to him in art: the exploration of body and space, the Interaction of the core and the envelope, trying to make the “Inside” is visible.

In his house “Hogwarts” lived Henry Moore four decades

Retro Sofas and cacti farming

In Perry Green, the visitor learns all the sides of Henry Moore. He can walk around his sculptures, pet, you, as a small model in miniature format and in XXL on the Lawn to see. And he is allowed to visit four studios, in which Moore since 1940 has worked and are scattered around the grounds.

In “Hoglands”, the home of Henry and his wife Irina, including Retro Sofas and cacti breeding, he learns Mrs. Tinsly know – or at least their spirit still shines through, “Hoglands” to be haunted. It dates originally from the 17th century. Century and was expanded by the artist and his wife in the 1960s. Mrs. Tinsly must have been a feisty Secretary, your Desk is much more spacious than that of the Foundation Director in the next room. The Foundation, founded by Moore, by the way, in order to save taxes. As a multi-millionaire he is supposed to be a time of the best taxpayers of the UK.

Sebastiano Barassi, Director of the Henry Moore Foundation, in one of the Ateliers of Perry Green

Sculpture in front of the Federal Chancellery

A photo with Helmut Schmidt is to be found in the work room in addition to other devotional objects on the shelf. The Ex-Chancellor was there, the made sure that the famous sculpture “Large Two Forms” came to Germany. Since 1979, in Bonn, in front of the former Federal Chancellery. And was shown so often on television, like no other sculpture has ever been. It was the Symbol of a divided world. But before Henry Moore was to discover in numerous exhibitions in Germany.

The Germans loved Moore for his wealth of simplification, abstraction, and experimentation and for his joy in the Material.

World-famous Moore sculpture in Bonn

Return to Rolandseck

For the anniversary exhibition for the tenth anniversary of the Arp Museum Rolandseck cooperates with the Henry Moore Foundation in the UK, Perry Green. The most important sculptor of the postwar period was, you can see exactly 40 years ago already times in front of the train station of Rolandseck on the Rhine. Only very few museums can realize an exhibition with XXL-sculptures.

The architecture of the American Star architect Richard Meyer, who designed the new building next to the neo-classical station building, according to Sebastiano Barassi, the head of the Henry Moore Foundation, for a presentation of the Moore sculptures. Which had to be specially with heavy-duty vans from the island to Rolandseck transported. For the first time, the Ensemble of monumental sculptures, most often in the Free is now, to see in the rooms of a Museum. The visit to Perry Green, you should defer, therefore, prefer something. Some of the major works are, in fact, be seen now in the Remagener the District of Rolandseck.

 

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