The FÜNF HÖFE show aluminium sculptures by the Austrian artist Helga Vockenhuber.
"Le rose della mente" are enthroned on a pedestal in the Plaza.
"I gigli del silenzio" lie on stones in the water of the fountain in the Portiahof.
Helga Vockenhuber's works captivate through the duplicity of stylistic devices - oversized enlargement of volumes and refinement of forms. The symbolic universe of her art revolves around three spiritual axes: the face, the body and the cosmos. The cosmos in the form of lilies and roses represents our insatiable desire for harmony.
In symbolism and in Italian, the lily is masculine, the rose feminine. In Christianity, the rose stands for purity and innocence - important themes of the concerns so central to Helga Vockenhuber's work of leading people to inner peace and to themselves - and thus back to paradise. To the place where the roses did not yet have thorns. For these, according to legend, only grew after the Fall.
