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WirWasser

Corner of Gundrunstrasse and Sonnwendgasse, Vienna

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On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the I. Wiener Hochquellenleitung, GELATIN designed a fountain for the City of Vienna. It celebrates Vienna's fresh water supply - spring water from the Alps that flows through 150 km long water pipelines to Vienna.

The fountain transports the vitality and joy of baroque fountains into the present and sets a sign for responsibility and community.

Gelatin's fountain figures, which in their various manifestations - up to abstraction - stand for diversity, are people and beings at the same time. These joyfully water-protecting and thus life-protecting "human beings," playfully nestling together and lustfully stretching out in their city, have obviously made a pact to stick together, to preserve and to protect. They provide an opportunity for contemplation or a pause for sitting down, and as a group they (mis)lead us into an everyday life full of lightness, playfulness and imagination. At the same time, the figures point to society's responsibility for the vital resource of water. Body to body, they form a unit that holds the fountain water together in the basin and reminds us that it is up to all of us to value and protect water.

Contracting authority: MA31- Wiener Wasser
Coordination of the competition: KÖR Wien