The guests who were allowed to inspect the monumental installation were impressed – “as if a rust-brown meteorite had fallen from the sky into the autumnal park,” some said. In 2020 the pandemic “hit” the globe. Werner Reiterer wanted to show this with his 17-ton sculpture, but also “the process by which a virus gets into the human cell”, explained the Leibnitzer-born. The ball with a diameter of two meters will sink into the ground from now on, in a hundred years it should even be completely gone, just as the virus will (hopefully) one day vanish into thin air!
Work of art in Leibnitz – Corona “Dankmal” for the heroes of the pandemic
