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Dülmen, Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche, The Cast Whale Project -- 2022 -- 0509-13
Taken on 14 March 2022, 11:03
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit line
- Self-photographed
- Rights
- CC BY-SA 4.0, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
Detail shot (humpback whale throat furrows) of art project “The Cast Whale Project” (Gil Shachar) in the Holy Cross Church in Dülmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany The art project “The Cast Whale Project” was on display in Dülmen from March 2 to April 6, 2022. “The Cast Whale Project” is an art project by Israeli artist Gil Shachar. It centers on a life-size sculpture of a beached humpback whale, based on the imprint of a dead animal found on the South African coast in 2018. The approximately 14-meter-long whale was cast in epoxy resin and fiberglass with great attention to detail, so that even skin structures, scars, and injuries remain visible. The gray surface reinforces the haunting, almost sacred effect. Exhibited internationally, the work confronts viewers with themes such as transience, the forces of nature, and the vulnerability of marine habitats. The Holy Cross Church is a Roman Catholic parish church that houses the tomb of the blessed mystic Anna Katharina Emmerick. It was built between 1936 and 1938 on Lüdinghauser Straße by church architect Dominikus Böhm as the second Catholic parish church and was consecrated on November 16, 1938, by the then Bishop of Münster,…
