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Raffael Rheinsberg

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Raffael Rheinsberg

(1943–2016, born in Kiel)

Black Line, 1989

Slate, stone

354 cm

The starting point for many of Raffael Rheinsberg’s projects was found objects. Trash, lost items, things that had no function—he used, organized, and combined all of these in his installations. For the first exhibitions at Wanås, this approach was typical of artists creating site-specific works. Black Line is one of the park’s most subtle works. Rheinsberg found black slate tiles in a storage space and wedged them down in the fissure of a large, cracked boulder in the park. The black line seems to be a minor intervention in nature, but it becomes powerful in the ways in which two different geological eras meet in the artwork.