• Snaporaz, ABZ Jasminweg housing estate, 2012 
Photo Marco Ganz © 2013 ProLitteris

    Snaporaz, ABZ Jasminweg housing estate, 2012 Photo Marco Ganz © 2013 ProLitteris 

  • Snaporaz, ABZ Jasminweg housing estate, 2012 
Photo Marco Ganz © 2013 ProLitteris

    Snaporaz, ABZ Jasminweg housing estate, 2012 Photo Marco Ganz © 2013 ProLitteris 

  • High-tech wooden sculpture Snaporaz at Holzbau Amann
Photo Marco Ganz © 2012 ProLitteris

    High-tech wooden sculpture Snaporaz at Holzbau Amann Photo Marco Ganz © 2012 ProLitteris 

Snaporaz in Oerlikon

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The new documentary film by Anne Cuneo, 2013, 25 minutes
Saturday 16 February, film screening 6 pm and 9 pm

message salon, Perla-Mode
Langstrasse 84/Brauerstrasse 37, 8004 Zurich

The sculpture “Snaporaz” has been standing in the open air in the ABZ Jasminweg housing estate in Zurich Oerlikon since spring 2012. In her latest film, Swiss filmmaker and author Anne Cuneo documents the history of the creation of the sculpture by Zurich artist Marco Ganz – from the idea to the completion of the artwork and its installation at its final destination in the cooperative housing estate.

“Snaporaz in Oerlikon” shows how the classic and familiar material of wood is processed using state-of-the-art technology to create a spectacular work of art that makes a big impression with its eight metre height and impressive weight of almost eight tonnes. The film not only focuses on the artistic work of Marco Ganz, it also shows the skilled workers involved in the creative process, such as carpenters and specialists in computer-controlled woodworking machines, as well as the process of determining the special surface coating that makes the wooden sculpture weatherproof for at least thirty years.

“Snaporaz in Oerlikon” is a film document of an unusual collaboration between art and craftsmanship. Anyone who has seen the film will look at the “Snaporaz” sculpture with different eyes.