MOUNTAINSIDE ART
Kunsthaus Bregenz, one of Europe's leading contemporary art museums, is staging a unique project in the Vorarlberg mountains in conjunction with British artist Antony Gormley and lead sponsor
HUGO BOSS: "Horizon Field," which consists of 100 life-sized iron casts of a human body, is the largest landscape installation in Austria to date. Some of the figures can be reached via footpaths or ski slopes; others can only be viewed from afar. Spread across an area of 150 square kilometers in the villages of Mellau, Schoppernau, Schröcken, Warth, Mittelberg, Lech, Klösterle and Dalaas, all of them are positioned on the same horizontal plane – precisely 2039 meters above sea level. With the project running from August 2010 to April 2012, the installation
will be subject to the elements and the changing seasons, creating a constant stream of new impressions. In "Horizon Field," the artist – who has earned an international reputation for spectacular projects in natural settings – focuses on fundamental questions of human life: Who are we? Where do we come from? Where are we heading? What is humankind's role in evolution? Will we – as cultural beings ¬– be able to realize our destinies in the natural world? This monumental installation, in which
HUGO BOSS has played a key part, will figure prominently in our communication activities.
