»Golden Nuggets« 
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© Ruth Schnell; Golden Nuggets, 2012/2013
Intervention
Dimensions variable
Stones, gold foil 24 carat
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Dimensions variable, site-specific to the Silvretta reservoirMaterial
Stones, 24-carat gold foil
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Ruth Schnell 24-09-2021
Intervention
At the bottom of the Silvretta reservoir dam unfolds a landscape that is touristically barely developed. Stones rupture the alpine turf.
Some of these stones were gilded in the artist's studio, shown in exhibitions and later returned to the landscape.
The works of the series 'Golden Nuggets' can be understood as an intervention at this location underneath the panorama- playing, on the one hand, with a possible history of the scattered stones as remnants of the dam construction. On the other hand, the dislocation of a stone, its subsequent modification and its re-naturation discuss questions of added value and social value construction.
Ruth Schnell: Golden Nuggets, 24-09-2021, in: Archive of Digital Art Intervention
At the bottom of the Silvretta reservoir dam unfolds a landscape that is touristically barely developed. Stones rupture the alpine turf.
Some of these stones were gilded in the artist's studio, shown in exhibitions and later returned to the landscape.
The works of the series 'Golden Nuggets' can be understood as an intervention at this location underneath the panorama- playing, on the one hand, with a possible history of the scattered stones as remnants of the dam construction. On the other hand, the dislocation of a stone, its subsequent modification and its re-naturation discuss questions of added value and social value construction.
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