Full Moon Hike

In the full moon’s light, the Institute for Art in Public Space Styria offers an annual hike visiting permanent artworks in the South of Styria. This year, the project 46 Colours by Tamara Grčić is visited.

In southeastern Styria, on a tuff rock wall in the Zara Woods near Klöch, the German artist Tamara Grčić installed colored, hand-blown glass spheres that, depending on the sunlight, bathe the rock face in a fleeting play of colors. Not only are the sensory impressions decisive, but also the names of the colors (e.g. orange yellow, clove brown or lavender purple) and the concrete scientific classification according to A. G. Werner from the early 19th century. The names only have a historical meaning, but to illustrate their poetic dimension, a film was made together with schools in Graz in which the implementation of the terms in writing and language forms a link with the technical language of geology.