Opening "GLACIER BLOCKS"

“GLA­CIER BLOCKS”
Lara Alm­ar­ce­gui

Tur­bi­nen­platz, Schiff­bau­strasse 13, 8005 Zurich
Satur­day, Novem­ber 9, 2024, 3.00 – 5.00 pm

GLA­CIER BLOCKS is an inter­ven­tion in public space con­cei­ved by the Spa­nish artist Lara Alm­ar­ce­gui (*1972). The instal­la­tion con­sists of a dedi­ca­ted arran­ge­ment of large and medium-sized bould­ers from a gravel pit in Wet­tin­gen. The artist thus refers to the signi­fi­cance of the gla­ciers for the for­ma­tion of the Limmat Valley – in both its topo­gra­phi­cal and built form.

The instal­la­tion is loca­ted on Tur­bi­nen­platz in Zurich. This loca­tion con­text in Zurich-West is essen­tial for the per­cep­tion of GLA­CIER BLOCKS. With this work, Alm­ar­ce­gui, who has alre­ady worked at the Venice Bien­nale or the Vienna Seces­sion with her strong spa­tial inter­ven­ti­ons, refers to the buil­ding boom in the Limmat Valley and to the dyna­mic urban deve­lo­p­ment of recent years, which can be expe­ri­en­ced more directly in Zurich-West than any­where else in the city.

The art­work will deve­lop in three phases over a period of nine months; in April and June 2025, fur­ther bould­ers will be brought to Zurich from the Täger­hard gravel works in Wet­tin­gen. In this way, the instal­la­tion will grow over the course of the exhi­bi­tion period.

A spe­ci­fic media­tion pro­gram will be car­ried out par­al­lel to the pro­ject.