Look-ins-land : Fredie Beckmanns (NL) 2022 The oversized birdhouses of the small

Look-ins-land : Fredie Beckmanns (NL) 2022 Photo: Jens J. Meyer

The oversized birdhouses of the small settlement bear the names of different birds - native birds, native birds in dialect, bird names from all over the world. They live peacefully together because there is room for everyone.

Exchange: River: Imke Rust Photo by Imke Rust

69 branches, forester colors and round steel, 2022
Imke Rust

A river of energy made of electrifying branches meanders down the slope of the forest art park. Based on the color of the glitter of a waterfall in the sunset, it symbolizes the mutual influence between humans and the rest of nature. Located on the slope of change, where the weather currents change, it also points to the current time quality of the upheaval in the whole world.

The Shy One: Imke Rust Photo by Imke Rust

The Shy Man (Ast) is a quiet work that blends into its surroundings far removed from the other works and only catches the eye of the attentive viewer. The white branch hovers in front of an old grey-white wall and betrays its presence in the morning sun by the curved shadow it casts on it.
This work forms a subtle and quiet counterpoint to the brightly luminous and eye-catching Wechsel:Fluss. It is the 70th branch.

Portal of Light: Jens J Meyer Photo: Jens J. Meyer

Vision:
The portal of light marks the entrance to the forest art park in radiant white.
Visible from afar, it leads visitors through a light foyer with two gates into the forest.

Content idea:
The portal of light creates a transitory space that at the same time invites people to linger by drawing attention to special details.
White cloth reflects the light into the walk-in interior and its surroundings. A bright place is created, an 'art clearing' with its own atmosphere. A new place can be experienced, in which views and fabric surfaces open up the dialogue between art and nature.
Another level of dialogue becomes visible through the shadows of the trees on the cloth surfaces. Each of the white cloth elements becomes the screen of a real-time projection and makes the shapes and movements of the branches, twigs and needles visible as shadows. The sun paints the forest on the elements of the cloth like an Asian ink drawing and focuses the attention on details and their changes through wind and time.

The visitor is thus surrounded by the installation with a living image of the forest and invited to pause in order to perceive even the smallest movements and changes.

Formal idea:
The portal of light spans like a dome over the path that leads to the forest art park.

Two gates guide visitors in and out. One to the light with a distant view of the mountains and the other to the interior of the forest with a close-up view of nature.
The center of the fragile dome construction made of cloth and cordage creates a central node directly above the path. From here, the cloth elements arch up to a circular ground plan on the floor. The two gates are connected with intermediate elements so that together they create a common space. A light cloth vault, the portal of light at the entrance to the forest art park.

Woodruff: Roger Rigorth Photo: Tristan Breyer

A cocoon, a dwelling, a home, quite natural and yet mysterious. "Woodruff", because as a child Roger was always looking for the home of the woodruff. Maybe part of his own search for home.

Fragments of past realities: Sabine Mayer Photo by Imke Rust

Fragments of the research into the history of the place can be read on the crumbled park benches from the time of the "summer resort". Scan the QR codes on the restored benches and listen to the exciting interviews on your cell phone!

Floating Gardens: Thomas Mai Photo: Tristan Breyer

Hemispheres of moss and grass float weightlessly around and between the beech and birch trees. Part of the trees or created by man? That stays open long in this place, especially in the evening sun.

The park is first of all the Forest Art Park St. Corona am Wechsel.

The beginnings of the park

Franz Loitzl and later the Hantich family advertised that their hotel in St. Corona had a forest park. When summer tourism, the time of summer vacations, came to an end due to the construction of a chair lift, the forest park lost its importance.

Today, due to climate change, St. Corona is developing again into a place for summer tourism. Art and education will also be a central theme in the tourist revitalization of the place. Therefore, the forest park will also be revived as a forest art park.

The park is located in St. Corona.

Once on the pilgrimage path to Mariazell and itself equipped with a pilgrimage church, the lively main street of St. Corona was characterized by many souvenir shops and restaurants. At the time of the summer holidays, when wealthy Viennese families fled the city air in Vienna for several months in summer, St. Corona was also a very popular recreation area. The construction of a chairlift in 1965 was the start of winter tourism, which later boomed.

Today, St. Corona and Unternberg are year-round attractions for more than 100,000 guests, mostly day tourists.

But the park is also in the Bucklige Welt.

Pure variety is the motto of the "Bucklige Welt".

Connoisseurs, athletes, but also those interested in culture will get their money´s worth on a trip to this region. The "change country" with its unique hilly landscape offers great views that can be enjoyed on the various cycling and hiking routes at any time of the year. The culinary diversity in all its facets - from home-style inns to tavern culture establishments to award-winning restaurants - is another highlight of the region.

Highlights of the region

https://erlebnisarena.at/de
https://www.schischaukel.net/erlebnisalm-und-schischaukel-moenichkirchen
https://www.wieneralpen.at/excursion-targets-in-den-wiener-alpen-discoveren/a-erlebnisalm-moenichkirchen
https://www.buckligewelt.at/
http://www.region-wechselland.at/
https://www.wechselland.info/
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https://www.sooogutschmeckt.at/

https://eis-greissler.at/

The park is first of all the Forest Art Park St. Corona am Wechsel.

The beginnings of the park

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The park is located in St. Corona.

But the park is also in the Bucklige Welt.

Highlights of the region