Grundsteine – Steinskulptur und kollektive Landschaft – Symposion II

On August 26 and 27, the Lindabrunn Symposium celebrates stone art and the founder of international art creation on site, the sculptor Mathias Hietz, with “Grundsteine – Stone Sculptures and Collective Landscape”. He would have been 100 years old in 2023. For 30 years, from 1967 to 1996, he lived the vision of a creative dialog in nature with artists from all over the world and made the Symposion Lindabrunn what it is today – a place where art and nature are taken seriously and shaped together. At the end of August, language artist Natalie Deewan, installation artist Eva Seiler, illustrator and media artist Maria Morschitzky and stone sculptor Alexander Till will respond to this legacy in the exhibition Hybris Stein. In the tradition of Mathias Hietz, their works are created on site.
In Lindabrunn at the end of the 1960s, the creative power and creative will of artists from all continents met the hospitality and enthusiasm of the local stone companies and the community. Artists and Lindabrunn residents remember this time in many colors. On Saturday afternoon, the story will be told. During a coffee colloquium, there will be history and stories from the sculptors Gabriele Berger and Peter Paszkiewicz as well as from Christian Reindl, who was actively involved in many works of art as a stonemason and as an employee of the former quarry. The exhibition also shows how stone became art here.
Working with stone is literally anything but easy, it requires heavy equipment, knowledge and space. Everything was there in Lindabrunn. The works in the sculpture park show this clearly. You can now find out more about the more than 100 works at any time in the mobile art education app Symposion Lindabrunn DIGITAL. If you wish, you can also take a themed tour of the site. As part of the Grundsteine Symposium, art historian Sandra Eichinger accompanies these tours. She has combed through art archives for Symposion Lindabrunn DIGITAL and spoken to many artists from back then.
In the 1970s, sculptors created the communication center in a disused quarry as an event venue, which to this day serves as an “arena” for performances of all kinds, celebrations of many clubs and even weddings. In keeping with this diversity, contemporary composers Jakob Gnigler and Karo Preuschl create the Schall und Raum music program together with the brass band. After all, celebrations have always been part of the symposium. Celebrations are a great occasion for discussions and discoveries. With this in mind, the Symposion Lindabrunn association is hosting a celebration for Mathias Hietz on Saturday evening – with a special dinner speech by the painter Christian Kvasnicka.