Press Release Wilhelm Scherübl Window Drawings The artist is known to collect stones, plants and objects and joins them to make constellations, which are easy to grasp as principals as they are composed of few basic elements. A seemingly unordered nature is presented as being structurally ordered in the artwork; buckets of plants, pieces of lawn, storage jars, and paper bags are lined up and systemized. In Huntly he applied with washable ink a microscopic plant structure on various windows throughout the town. Sites included six private homes and six public places, including the Huntly Learning Centre, the Huntly Express, the Gordon Primary School, the Huntly Business Centre, the Somerfield Supermarket and the Brander Museum. The window drawings are some form of an alternative to net curtains and give the effect of a landscape. The longer you look at them the more three-dimensional they become. Like all his other works, the window drawings only make sense, if seen as a whole. One has to look at them all around the town, rather then at each individual one. A translation back to words is then, therefore, scarcely possible. Of course, the first thought, when confronted with the monotone graphics, is of the one of mere ritual ink drawings. But if you look at them all, the idea of a microscopic plant structure then reflects the microscopic view of the community. A poem written by the artist himself after his visit to Huntly may help translate his underlying ideas: Seeds form cells plants, animals, people consist of cells people build houses and streets houses and streets form towns paths and towns structure the world people, plants and animals make these structures alive people, animals, plants make seeds The twelfth of May 2000 was a sunny day in Huntly.
The windows are a contribution to the run up of the Gordon 2000 event in August and form part of Deveron Art’s ArtCard project, at which 6 artists of international standard are invited to make a postcard about the town. More information on Wilhelm Scherübl’s work can be found in the Brander Library. Thanks to everybody who cooperated in the project. May 2000