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Thomas Hirschhorn<br />
Holzweg (Wrong track), 2008<br />
This is the first time that Paris-based Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn presents a major work since Federal<br />
Councillor Christoph Blocher was voted out of office in December 2007. The outdoor installation Holzweg,<br />
set in a woodland near the Ostermundigen quarry, has been designed and created specially for Zentrum Paul<br />
Klee. The installation is about violence as such, and about the will to confront it.<br />
A Holzweg, a dead-end track in dense woodland, is “the wrong track”. But, according to Hirschhorn,<br />
we still have to continue until we have reached the end, which is a place of struggle between nature and art.<br />
The forest venue stands for the field of conflict. Those who walk to the end in the dense forest will<br />
face an installation that consists of a white car; natural and synthetic wood of all sizes; African sculptures;<br />
garden chairs; and other materials from the artist’s studio. In his opinion, we have to face and deal with violence<br />
and negative forces as they are an unavoidable, integral part of our world.<br />
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