"Room with a view"
2017 | Wetz and Silas Kreienbühl (Joint work) | 20 Photographs | Plasma screens | 2 HD videos | All in oak wood frames | 12 Excellence-Station rooms and corridor, Lucerne Cantonal Hospital sursee
Art enhances human well-being: The KKLB brings view and woodland to the Excellence-Station in the Sursee Hospital.
The interventions by which Silas Kreienbühl and Wetz of the KKLB have brought art to the hospital can now be experienced in the “Excellence-Station” in Sursee. The artists’ concept for the top-equipped rooms is based on the interior materiality and quickens our imagination.
You don’t need to invent the view on the 6th floor: it’s instantly offered – by looking through the window. From the elevated location and with a view on the Sursee moraine hill, you can take wonderful walks with your eyes. The spacious window fronts are a screen from which the real landscape is conveyed. The pond area, the lake, the green hills, the mountains in the horizon: the whole distant architecture can imaginatively be wandered from the perspective of the bed. You experience a feeling of lightness and weightlessness.
From the oakwood in the rooms, the path is taking you to the corridor and into the woodland. The presented photographic works invite you to take a virtual stroll across the vastness and depths of the forest. “Forest” means taking a deep breath and having a feeling of freshness, but it also means magic and safety. The walk already starts on the screen in the room. Animals may suddenly scurry across the thicket or enter a clearing. Don’t be surprised if you see a chicken or a sheep in the forest. The art in the hospital wasn’t created by art professors. But by the KKLB instead.
