Dance of the Dead Vines

The Dance of the Dead Vines is the name of an exhibition in Quinten on Lake Walen. On display are sculptures made of local vine wood, which oscillate between abstraction and figuration. The eight locations are far apart.

A large part of the time you spend in the exhibition consists of walking, hiking or jogging, in a beautiful nature spared from the car. How you fill in the in-between is up to you. Observing or introspective, playful, in dialogue or simply silent.

It takes about half a day for all eight locations, a whole day if they take a dip in the lake and stop for a bite to eat or put something on the fire in the Knüsel. However, if you are reasonably experienced in jogging, you can do it in 80 minutes. You can find a map with the travel times between the individual locations on the flyer and via QR code on your mobile phone.

The path leads along the lake from place to place, past rocks, yews and palm trees. It usually has hardly any gradient, but in the middle, in the village, there is a short but steep incline. The furthest away from the ship stations is the location in the Gändli. A mountain hiking trail leads there.
The wall frieze in the old quarry between Dörfli and Felsenweg juxtaposes representational motifs such as grapes, figs and fire lilies with non-representational ornamentation. In addition, he transforms a non-place into a place.

The figures mark stage locations. Their names connect Quinten with the contemporary world, which hums and hums in sight but reassuringly far away on the opposite bank.