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Public Art A recently commissioned public art work for the N8 Cashel to Mitchelstown Road has commenced construction. The commission entitled Settlement was awarded to German artist Cornelia Konrads through an open competition process in which 44 artist’s submissions were received. Cornelia born in Wuppertal, Germany has an extensive portfolio of large scale public art commissions in Germany, Netherlands, France, Belgium, Sweden, Italy, USA, South Korea, Japan and Australia.

Cornelia has responded to the natural landscape and architectural heritage in her work Settlement which explores the idea of ambivalence between a contemporary building and an ancient ruin. The ruin of a small house is located in the meadow next to the road. With its simple, symmetric outline, the broad windows and the smooth rendered surface of the lower part this building reflecting an average contemporary house, but the rendering blends into a natural stone wall, which becomes more and more rough and weathered towards the top. On the upper part, the stones even seem to loose their connection, as if the walls are about to dissolve. ‘My idea was to create an ambivalence between a contemporary building and an ancient ruin. The concept reflects the long history of settlement in this region - the traces and relics the settlers have left in the landscape during thousands of years. Furthermore it brings into sight the fact that all our recent constructions, values and properties will once again be mysterious fragments of a forgotten past in future years’. [Corneila Konrads] Ambivalence is often a theme in Cornelia’s work and is reflected not only in her philosophical approach to understanding and reflecting the environments in which her works are situated, but also in the physical manifestation of the work - in Settlement, as in other of her works, there is a play between stability and volatility, construction and deconstruction gravity and solidity and between reality and simulation. Her work has a dream-like, surreal quality, and as you encounter the delicate balance of stones which seemingly floating towards the upper part of the building , you begin to wonder whether these are falling through decay or magically flying up into the air of their own propulsion.

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