{"id":9696,"date":"2015-03-09T19:10:02","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T18:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mused-mosaik.de\/?p=9696"},"modified":"2017-03-26T12:30:20","modified_gmt":"2017-03-26T10:30:20","slug":"from-interview-to-installation-with-nicole-zaech-in-geneva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mused-mosaik.de\/en\/from-interview-to-installation-with-nicole-zaech-in-geneva\/","title":{"rendered":"From interview to installation: With Nicole Z\u00e4ch in Geneva"},"content":{"rendered":"

Skipping school\u00a0has never been so nice: For 2 weeks I am in Geneva to take part in a mosaic installation. The great thing is: It’s not just any project, but the project I have presented to you two years ago in an interview with Nicole Z\u00e4ch<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

When it is finished the mosaic will cover the walls of a huge staircase that connects 4 floors of a\u00a0bright villa. Nearly 150 square meters of iridescent, matte and transparent pieces of glass with names like Ginger<\/em>, Apple<\/em>, Pear<\/em> and Avocado<\/em>\u00a0will be installed by us here in Geneva.<\/p>\n

I am so proud to be a part of this project. Because even if I haven’t glued a single piece\u00a0in the studio, yet I have seen\u00a0the preparation, when I visited Nicole in 2013 in Berlin. At that moment I would never have thought that one day I would\u00a0be\u00a0balancing myself\u00a0on a\u00a0scaffold, working side by side with her to bring this mosaic on the wall.<\/p>\n

Already during the interview, I was fascinated by the project. Not only because of the dimensions, but also because it shows how beautiful mosaics and architecture can play together: Through open architecture, lots of glass and the smart\u00a0use of color and material, inside and outside merge. When you stand in the entrance, I can already imagine, one will still feel\u00a0to be surrounded by\u00a0nature. A bit as if\u00a0as you are located in the woods in front of a tree house, and the spiral staircase that will be installed later, brings you up to the crown to\u00a0an increasingly lighter foliage.<\/p>\n

Working on site is physically demanding, no doubt about that. Check and sort\u00a0all the parts, apply glue, remove paper, wash off the glue, clean the joints \u2013 after 10 hours days I fall into my bed in the evening happy but totally exhausted. I can now understand very well why Nicole likes to lay her mosaics herself: It is something completely different to see the mosaic growing at the location for which it was intended.\u00a0To go ahead in\u00a0the team and see the results of the\u00a0work at the end of the day. To see how\u00a0light is reflected by the glass tesserae at\u00a0different times of day and under diverse weather conditions. To see\u00a0the faces of architect and client when they come to the site to check\u00a0the state of work.<\/p>\n

It will probably take four weeks until everything is installed and grouted. In two\u00a0weeks I\u00a0learn things that no lesson at school could ever teach me: For example, that measures of walls\u00a0planned on paper \u00a0rarely have the same dimensions in real life. And that you must improvise here quickly and cleanly. That it is not so easy to work in peace, while a wall above you is being plastered, burning bitumen rises to your nose and three radio stations are simultaneously playing. That it is indeed a bargain when boxes\u00a0with mosaic mats are packed with a good system and all parts are labeled like they should.<\/p>\n

Even though I won’t see the mosaic completed:\u00a0We will still arrive at\u00a0the final height of 14 meters during the time I am here, since we first go upwards with the installation on\u00a0the narrowest side of the staircase. From there you can see Lake Geneva. And the snow capped mountains around it.<\/p>\n

Want to know more?\u00a0Here you find the video interview with Nicole Z\u00e4ch from 2013 in which you can learn more about the artist and her project.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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