STATION 1: WATER- Thorsten Schoth- Cyanometer
The trained sculptor Thorsten Schoth leads our gaze towards the sky, going back to the research results of 18th century naturalists who tried to determine the shades of blue and thus the humidity they contained. The less moisture in the air, the deeper the blue and the greater the global warming!
The sculptor refers to the centuries-old great symbolic power of blue and creates a two-meter rosette with 16 shades of blue with which the viewer can measure the blue of the sky.
In color theory, blue is a primary color. Blue creates distance and is considered cooling. In the world’s religions, blue has very different meanings: it usually refers to inscrutability and infinity, to the celestial, truth, faithfulness and trust, to an enlightened state of mind in Buddhism, but also to the role of the mediator between heaven and earth, Mary in a blue cloak.
Modern geoengineering is also concerned with the blue of the sky and attempts to manipulate the climate using technical methods to change the water content of the clouds in order to slow down global warming.
Will we eventually have to do without the deep and magical blue of the sky and live under gray cloud cover? The artist asks himself this question and documents the still paradisiacal conditions of today’s sky so that we will still remember them in 20 years’ time!
Thorsten Schoth was born in Lüdinghausen in 1987 and studied under Prof. Katharina Fritsch at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. He is an assistant in Katharina Fritsch’s class and has received various scholarships and prizes, as well as private and public commissions. Exhibition catalogs document his exhibition activities.
