Get inside my head #11
Siah Armajani conceives works for public spaces; often developed as a hybrid of art, design, and architecture, they are also inscribed with the idea of everyday utility.
In the garden of the geological museum of Münster University, where rock formations have been located together with exotic trees, imported from America in the 18th century by an aristocratic family, he constructed a library environment in the open-air.
Armajani addresses the subject of study and research in his thoroughly poetic work, an idyllic environment situated within the university’s city-centre campus, creating a space for seminars and an opportunity to do research in the open air. Students and faculty from the surrounding institutions enjoy using its afternoon shade on hot days. The artist’s work not only expanded the space available at the university: there is also an underground shelter below the grounds of the study garden that served for research purposes for the zoological institute in making vibration-free measurements during the 1980s.
Installation view 2017 © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2017. Photo: LWL / Hanna Neander