CAMPO SANTO A Sea of Color for a Market Square

Acclaimed artist Horst Glasker created “Campo Santo” (project “Crime Scene Paderborn”) as part of his public art installation series “Art in Architecture”.  Art in Architecture brings public spaces alive with color and reflection upon the human experience.

Glasker transformed the originally grey public square in front of the Marktkirche (church market) Paderborn, Germany, into a kaleidoscope of color that enlivens the square’s environment with a brilliance that spills out into the surrounding area.  Horst used acrylic paint of alternating warm and cool colors upon 3,000+ individual paving stones across the 900 sq. ft. square create the flowing and transformative painting.  A winding yellow path guides visitors through the square.  Along the serpentine trail are large stenciled words that describe human emotions and states of humanity from both ends of the spectrum of virtues and vices, from cowardice and courage to compassion.

“The polarities in human existence are my starting point; I move between chaos and form, ecstasy and system, freedom and order, madness and reason.”