Unfallkasse NRW

For the artistic design of the revitalized regional directorate Westphalia-Lippe of the Unfallkasse NRW in Münster, Samuelis Baumgarte Art Consulting presented a complex spectrum of important contemporary trends by internationally known artists, mostly from Münster and NRW.

In the newly designed training area, a large-format mural by the Münster artist Stefan Rosendahl will hang in the future, which plays with a symbolic gesture, the crossed index fingers of the hands. Regine Schumann from Cologne was commissioned with an individual design and implementation of a lighting concept for the entrance area.

Art Concept by Regine Schumann:

“On the long wall opposite the elevator and stairwell hangs a 3-part wall piece made of luminescent, fluorescent acrylic glass in the shape of a semicircle, the 3 precisely fitting elements of which are seamlessly inserted into one another. The fluorescent, transparent, three-dimensional segments / circular elements have a luminescent back wall with a concealed hanging device. This tripartite division of the wall piece "cameo" was chosen to create a dynamic and visually sweeping movement that can swing out into the room. The other specialty of the wall work lies in the material used - luminescent and colored fluorescent acrylic glass. All plates are soft fluorescent colors in blue, orange, green and pink. The panels appear almost transparent on the surface, but the different fluo colors glow at the edges and underline the linear character of the large, filigree wall work. Since the 3 picture elements touch one another but all side walls are differently colored, the different colors also touch and create a variety of colors that is reminiscent of flashed glass cameo. Depending on the viewing angle, the visual impression of the colored lines changes, sometimes the colored side panel seems to dominate, another time the blue front panel. A constantly changing play of colors begins. Under the influence of black light, this fluorescent color intensifies into intense glow and an aura of light surrounds the work “cameo” in front of the light gray wooden wall.

The title of the work alludes to the description of flashed glass, also called cameo glass: a flat or hollow glass that consists of two or more layers of different colors. On the other hand, the luminescent quality of the work alludes to a cameo, or cameo for short, the surprisingly brief appearance of a well-known person in a film. Here, however, the luminescent acrylic sheets stand for luminescent safety signs, an exciting topic for accident insurance companies. The 3 luminescent backs, which appear opaque in daylight, glow green-blue under the influence of black light and remain visible even in the dark. The mural “cameo” manages to act as filigree yet imposing light art in the entrance hall of the UK-Münster, to refer to the well-known logo of the accident center in terms of form and content, to reflect the task of the accident insurance company and to interpret it independently. In addition, to take into account the parameters of the architecture in their three-dimensional depth and dimension and yet to thematize the "envelope" in a luminous and transparent manner and to float slightly in front of the wall. "