Subtle Contemporary Wall Art

Architectural structure and transcendence in glass: the architecture of Nuremberg's St Lorenz Church contains many recurring 'patterns'. This inspired artist Thierry Boissel to transfer one of these patterns onto the wall of the parish hall.

This pattern is continued in the corridor below, where the roof of the Lorenzkirche marks the transition from the material church to the sky above. The artist transferred this theme to the wall design: he roughly rasterised an image of the stonework, translated the raster into a new material language and adapted the result for the wall of the parish hall.

The glass drawing refers to the supporting structure of the church, which thus remains new and at the same time familiar in a contemporary material and design - a mission of the church in today's world. 2,400 glass elements were cut by water jet and mounted on the existing wall. The ornamental elements, three to ten centimetres in size, are made of ten millimetre thick float glass. The wall itself is plastered flush after the elements have been installed.

Photos (c) Thierry Boissel