VICTOR KÉGLI

Bomb de Busch

Bomb de Busch
unrealized Project for the Symposium de Sculpture / Luxembourg´95
Performance
warplain, bombe, militaryband, shovel
1995
KULTURSTADT EUROPA - BOMB DE BUSCH (1995)

The story of this unrealized performance action is spectacular, and so preposterous that we may regard the documentation, even the telling of it alone, of the planning and failure of the work, as an independent work of art: it is a kind of letter correspondence performance that displays features of realistic satire. In 1995, the year that Luxembourg City bore the title of European Capital of Culture, Victor Kégli received an invitation to take part in the accompanying sculpture symposium.

The plan was born to drop a bomb from a German warplane on the sculpture grounds on Gallows Hill (Galgenberg), near Esch sur Alzette, not far from the capital. Kégli’s work as a “sculptor” was to consist of filling the crater caused by the dropping of the bomb again during the two-month symposium. Since the artist did not wish to leave behind a lasting work, the destructive act of the bomb’s impact was, so to speak, the beginning of a performance and the reason for the work done to neutralize the damage, which is to be understood here as a kind of negative work, as an anti-sculpture. At the same time, this spectacular action was supposed to launch the sculptors’ symposium.

Bomb de Busch
Bomb de Busch
Bomb de Busch
Bomb de Busch
Bomb de Busch
Bomb de Busch
Bomb de Busch
Bomb de Busch
Bomb de Busch
Bomb de Busch