Mauro Staccioli
Flying Buttress
Flying Buttress
2008
steel
Viewed as a fragment of an archway, Mauro Staccioli’s intervention in the »Giardino« establishes a link to the motto of the park »Hic Terminus Haeret«, to »Terminus«, the god of boundaries and transition. Formally, the large steel construction, which reminds Daniel Spoerri of an »apple wedge«, appears, despite its tension-filled torsion, as a sunken trunk or pillar that carefully – even gently, as if to rest for a moment – leans on a neighbouring tree.