Ottmar Horl - Sponti Activist Gnome Gold - Sold

This sculpture is based on a real art project from 1994. Artist Ottmar Hörl distributed no fewer than a thousand of these gnomes in blue via Seligenstadt, Germany, in groups or individually. Not all at once, but in randomly chosen steps and phases, these gnomes were placed in different places and completely unexpectedly in the city. The gnomes remained standing until they were taken away by passers-by, which was exactly the intention of the art project. The idea was that the gnome project was already owned by the public anyway, so it wouldn't matter if the garden gnomes were moved. Object is weather resistant.
Ottmar Hörl is a German conceptual artist, sculptor, installation, action, photography and object artist. He gained worldwide popularity thanks to his radical, avant-garde art concepts and large-scale projects with serial sculptures in public spaces, based on his distinctive definition of sculpture as an organizational principle. He is considered an "offensive and direct strategist campaigning for a new type of public art" and the most successful artist creating multiples, an artist implementing his vision of art for all and democratizing sculpture like no other so far promotes others. As an artist, he was discredited in 2008 because of his art project "Poisoned", in which he had many gnomes in line give the Hitler salute. Although he wanted to provoke and protest the emerging National Socialism, this was not understood by everyone. The gnome is weatherproof. Ottmar Hörl is strongly inspired by artists such as Kaws, Jason Freeny, Jeff Koons, D*Face and Popek.