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20 hectares of playground for the garden show: the farmland to the rear of the three steel hills and the entire tract of greenery from the Wyssloch Valley down to Lake Egelsee will be sprouting weird and wonderful objects to form an animated kind of front garden.
Paul McCarthy will be subverting the otherwise harmonious landscape sculpture of the Zentrum Paul Klee with his installation Complex Shit – a giant pile of dog faeces. The old barn will be neighboured by the immensely tall and fully functional Wellness Skull by Joep van Lieshout, which will be hosting an extensive programme of videos.
The row of houses along the stream will be assuming a new guise courtesy of Basel-based artists Claudia and Julia Müller, and Lake Egelsee itself is to be transformed into a highly original art venue. As for the idyllic lakeside path – it is to be clad in a new raiment of flowers courtesy of Bern’s Botanical Gardens. Hanging in the trees will be mysterious sound sculptures by the artist Pierre Huyghes, and – our artistic contribution to the Euro 2008 football championships – the greenspace will feature an extensive football ground entirely devoid of goalmouths.
The Zentrum Paul Klee is indebted to the Euro 08 Bern Association for its support in this venture.
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