Gregor Gaida: Polygonal Horse II
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The Gahlenz village museum was founded following an exhibition of old agricultural equipment and rural crafts organised by the former Agricultural Production Cooperative (LPG) in 1982. This exhibition in a three-sided farmyard formed the basis for the Gahlenz village museum, which opened there in 1992. The farm had a horse gin, the remains of which can still be seen today.
The artist Gregor Gaida, born in Chorzow, Poland, in 1975, created the 'Polygonal Horse' sculpture in 2011. Cast from aluminium, Gaida's depiction of a horse no longer has a head, but instead has ten legs that it stretches into the sky. The former horse gin became a spatial reference for Gaida’s work, which acts out an ambivalent situation between strength and helplessness.
Gaida is represented with another work in the German Bundestag collection, where it is on permanent display.
