Swing it Back - Amadora, Portugal
Posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member manchanegra
N 38° 45.150 W 009° 14.022
29S E 479693 N 4289337
Swing it back is a work by the German artist Matthias Contzen.
Waymark Code: WMDXYZ
Location: Lisboa, Portugal
Date Posted: 03/08/2012
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member Outspoken1
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Swing it back is a work by the German artist Matthias Contzen.
It´s a marble piece with a twisted form that turns around itself swinging back to it´s original position.


Matthias Contzen was born 1964 in Aschaffenburg, Germany. He graduated from the European Academy of Fine Arts in Trier sculpture course in 1987 and held his first exhibition in the same year. He subsequently completed an apprenticeship in sculpture in in Munich, studied design in Saarbruecken and in 1998 completed his studies at the Master School of Stone Sculpture in Mayen. In the same year he left Germany to live in Portugal where he works as a sculptor.

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Title: Swing it back

Artist: Matthias Contzen

Media (materials) used: Marble

Location (specific park, transit center, library, etc.): Garden in front of Public Library

Date of creation or placement: 2009

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