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<B>The Living Monument of Biron <BR>A sculpture in public space
<BR>(Biron, France 1996)</B><BR><BR>German artist Jochen Gerz, who has
lived in Paris since 1966, is working with students of the Art College of
Bordeaux on a new sculpture in public space. The Ministry of Culture
Commission is a project for the replacement of the monument to the dead
in the village of Biron, erected in the 1920s in commemoration of the
First World War. Biron is situated in the Dordogne (France), an area
which experienced the war crimes of 1943-44. "The Living Monument of
Biron" brings together on the existing monument all the adult
inhabitants' answers to a secret question asked by the artist. The future
adults and the newcomers to Biron will be asked the same question and the
Monument will remain a "work in progress".<BR><BR>The answers talk about
values and the worth of life today, of such ideas as freedom, love of
France, of Europe, but also of memories of the past and the two World
Wars.<BR><BR>Jochen Gerz adds this sculpture to his series of monuments
and interactive sculptures in public space: "The Monument Against
Fascism", Hamburg, 1986 (Esther and Jochen Gerz), and "2146 Stones -
Monument Against Racism", Saarbrucken, 1993. More recently, "The Bremen
Questionnaire / Sino Somno Nihil" was finished in Bremen in 1995. Since
his contribution to the 1976 Biennal in Venice with "The Centaur's
Difficulty when Dismounting The Horse", Jochen Gerz is internationally
renowned as an artist. <BR><BR><B>The "Living Monument of Biron" will be
unveiled on <BLINK>July 13th, 1996, </BLINK> <BR>in the presence of the
delegate of Visual Arts for the Ministry of Culture, Jean-Frangois de
Canchy.</B>
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