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Die Energiewende von der atomaren und fossilen hin zur regenerativen Versorgung stellen die Energieversorger vor große Herausforderungen. Die Skulptur, ein Energiebaum, stellt den anstehenden Wechsel zur regenerative Energieversorgung, dem die Stadt Zweibrücken positiv und aufgeschlossen begegnet, zeichenhaft dar.
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Present and Future – Our society is going through a paradigm chance. The transition from an atomic and fossil fuel economy to a form of sustainable energy supply and distribution is a big challenge to the energy and utility companies. This sculpture, an energy-tree, symbolizes the coming change to a sustainable energy economy, which our client, the public works of the city of Zweibrücken, actively applauds and welcomes. The conic tubes of the stem and the branches refer to the infrastructure needed to supply a city with its vital lifeblood, energy and water. Of course it also refers to the client, whose systems are mostly invisible beneath the ground. Here they break out into the open. The photo-voltaic cells on the sculpture supply the energy needed to light the sculpture at night. The design of the pedestal plays with the movement of the traffic: the static blue strips on the pedestal become animated when seen from a moving car and produce a continuous standing wave, a reference to the water supply system. On purpose, the design remains suspended between figurative and abstraction. We wanted to open the field of interpretation and association as much as possible, and indeed a lively debate started in Zweibrücken on what the sculpture looks like, and if it’s any good. Anyway, we are looking forward to the name the sculpture will receive when out of the many possible images and associations one will have prevailed.
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