Scouring post Looking into the distance

Artist: Manfred Fürth (Kürten) - sculptor and painter (soapstone, sandstone, oil colors, pencil), autodidact

His motto: "I want to grow like a tree, but not like in a garden, but like a tree in the forest. Manfred Fürth wants to depict the moods of people.

Object: Looking into the distance

His thoughts of vastness, freedom, curiosity, longing and fulfillment.
Manfred Fürth uses soapstone and sandstone for his sculptures. What is particularly impressive here is that Manfred Fürth works without templates, i.e. when he starts with a new stone, he himself does not yet know what kind of sculpture will emerge in the end. With his attentive, sensitive manner, he has access to his intuition, i.e. he allows himself or his hand to be guided by his intuition, he senses, as it were, what wants to manifest itself from, through and in the stone. The result is magical, intertwined, profound beings. This is also the case with the latest project, Project Scheuerpfahl - Sculptures. An art project for the Oben an der Volme cultural region.

Location: Halver-Schwenke sports field (coordinates: 51.194363 / 7.441666)

As part of the Scheuerpfähle fürs Volmetal project, 20 artistically designed Scheuerpfähle will be erected in the four municipalities that have joined together to form the Oben an der Volme region. They are intended to draw attention to special features in the Volme Valley, serve as landmarks or invite reflection. The X 20 hiking trail, which connects Schalksmühle, Halver, Kierspe and Meinerzhagen over a length of 20 kilometers, is the bracket.

The initiator and sponsor of the project is the VAKT art association from Halver. The NRW Ministry for Regional Identity, Communities and Local Government, Building and Gender Equality has sponsored the project. Minister Ina Scharrenbach personally delivered the funding notification to Halver on the Saturday before Christmas 2019.

Scouring poles have their origins in agriculture. Farmers used to put them in the Weide so that cattle could rub against them. In the Volmetal, the posts are also intended to figuratively point out points of friction. They are intended to draw attention to special places, stimulate discussion or help to rediscover home.

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