Walter Oltmann - Mediator, 1994

Walter Oltmann (1960)
Mediator (1994)
Copper wire, copper tubing and mirror / 2030 x 980 x 280 mm
CCAC #0439

Donated by the artist

The artist drew inspiration from a hat stand, and how it denotes arrivals and departures and mediates between public and private terrains. The work also alludes to an altar as a symbol of mediation between the secular and spiritual.

Photograph by Gisèle Wulfsohn