Nicely Curated Things

The Golden Spiral by Hannsjörg Voth in Marha Plain, Morocco. Photo by Ingrid Amslinger.

The artist Hannsjörg Voth has built from 1980 to 2003 at the Marha Plain in Morocco his very relevant land art works Himmelstreppe, Golden Spirale and Stadt des Orion. Originally conceptualised as fading land art the artist decided through the building process of the Himmelstreppe or latest with the planning of the Goldene Spirale to maintain the works and keep them permanently. Hannsjörg Voth came to the Marha Plain at the beginning of the 1980s and found the right place of quietness and freedom to start his extraordinary works out in the dessert, close to Al Jorf and Fezna Oasis. In his works he is reflecting the local rammed earth building tradition of the oases settlements. Even if the works are no houses in a traditional sense, he was building them with local artisan using their hand skills in a traditional manner. Both rammed earth structures, Himmelstreppe and Stadt des Orion, demonstrate with a height of 17 meters similarities to the Kasbah’s of the nearby oases.

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