IGS 2013 Hamburg - The South Sea Garden World of Continents: Noa Noa - Gauguin and the South Seas
Westlicher Zugang vom Hauptweg der "Welt der Kontinente" © 2013 Lichtschwärmer, Christo Libuda LA.BAR
Pflanzbild mit exotischen Pflanzen, gerahmt durch geschnittene Eiben © 2013 Lichtschwärmer, Christo Libuda LA.BAR
Südlicher Zugang vom Rundweg, der Australische Garten "Down Under" im Hintergrund © 2013 Lichtschwärmer, Christo Libuda LA.BAR
Nördlicher Zugang vom Rundweg durch die "Welt der Kontinente" © 2013 Lichtschwärmer, Christo Libuda LA.BAR
Weg aus Muschelsplitt, gerahmt von Blütenstauden und geschnittenen Eiben © 2013 Lichtschwärmer, Christo Libuda LA.BAR
In the book Noa Noa (Scent), Gauguin describes his life in Tahiti. The Noa Noa garden stages the turmoil described therein between the "banality of the European" and the search for the "original".
The basic structure of the garden is based on a Tahitian tattoo. The pruned yews make reference to French gardening. They refer to the European culture that Gauguin wanted to escape, but which always remained present to him because of the French colonial administration and missionaries.
The choice of perennials refers to Gauguin's intensely colorful visual language. As a painter, he sought direct undisguised expression, "Everything in the landscape confused and dazzled me. Coming from Europe, I was constantly uncertain about the choice of colors, superfluous concerns tormented me. Yet it was so easy to naturally put a blue and a red on my canvas. In the streams I was enchanted by shimmering golden forms - why did I hesitate to pour all this gold and all this sunshine onto my canvas?
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Planning offices
LA.BAR Landscape Architects bdla
Berlin
Employees
Rüdiger Amend, Heidrun Fehr, Rike Kirstein
Project period
2011
- 2013
Construction amount
40.000 EUR
Client
Internationale Gartenschau Hamburg 2013 GmbH
Address
Am Inselpark
21109 Hamburg
Deutschland
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Project type
Garden exhibitions
