Column Berliner Truffle (42): The Giordano Bruno monument at Potsdamer Platz

Walked previous a thousand instances, noticed nothing a thousand instances. It’s stunning how rudimentary a passerby’s notion of the town is. And but the stretched bronze ft of a person with unfold toes might be seen from above whenever you strategy the glass dice of Potsdamer Platz prepare station on the Sony Middle aspect.

The sculpture is vaguely harking back to Giacometti’s physique silhouettes. It appears to be like as if it had been rammed into the bottom in the midst of a headlong dive. In a wierd twisted dive, nonetheless, by which the outsized, pointed-fingered hand followers are simply as exaggerated because the melting head of the bronze.

The person whose head, or somewhat his exuberant spirit, seeks to interrupt the boundaries of matter belongs to Giordano Bruno. That is revealed by the inscription on the bottom plate. The sculpture is devoted to the reminiscence of the Italian scholar who was burned as a heretic in Rome on February 17, 1600.

Bruno is taken into account probably the most good thinkers of recent instances. “It’s laughable to say that there’s nothing exterior heaven,” an inscription quotes the priest, thinker and astronomer who was a thorn within the aspect of the Inquisition due to his revolutionary theories.

“There may be not a single world, a single earth, a single solar, however as many worlds as we see shining sparks above us.”

The wrestle for that means can also be a function of the sculpture of Berliner Alexander Polzin, whose highly effective, cumbersome sculptures can be present in Paris, New York and Budapest.

The six meter excessive bronze sculpture for Giordano Bruno, which has stood at Potsdamer Platz since 2008, is a solid. Polzin made the unique out of wooden. It’s positioned in Nola close to Rome, the place Bruno was born in 1548. The truth that the tough grain of the wooden might be seen within the bronze makes Polzin’s weird thinker much more attention-grabbing.