Wilhelm Scherübl

Structure

Wilhelm Scherübl is from Austria and came to Huntly in 2000. The artist is known to collect stones, plants and objects and joins them to make constellations, which are easy to grasp as principals as they are composed of few basic elements. A seemingly unordered nature is presented as being structurally ordered in the artwork: buckets of plants, pieces of lawn, storage jars, and paper bags are lined up and systemized. In Huntly he applied with washable ink a microscopic plant structure on various windows throughout the town. Sites included six private homes and six public places, including the Huntly Learning Centre, the Huntly Express, the Gordon Primary School, the Huntly Business Centre, the Somerfield Supermarket and the Brander Museum.

The window drawings are some form of an alternative to net curtains and give the effect of a landscape; the longer you look at them the more three-dimensional they become. Like all his other works, the window drawings only make sense if seen as a whole. One has to look at them all around the town, rather than at each individual site. Of course the first thought, when confronted with the monotone graphics, is the one of mere ritual ink drawings. But if you look at them all, the idea of a microscopic plant structure then reflects the microscopic view of the community.

Seeds - form cells - plants, animals, people - consist of cells - people build houses and streets - houses and streets form towns - paths and towns structure the world - people, plants and animals - make these structures alive - people, animals, plants - make – seeds

The twelfth of May 2000 was a sunny day in Huntly.

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