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Informationen zu Alpenpässen“Welcome to Andermatt!” or similar words would come out of its mouth, if this stone sculpture could talk.
The more than seven metre-tall stone sculpture by internationally renowned Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone has found its prominent place on the roundabout outside Andermatt and was inaugurated by Samih Sawiris in person on 18 May 2017.
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The stone sculpture welcomes travellers, visitors and locals to Andermatt and the Ursern Valley. It stands in the middle of a roundabout that is encountered immediately upon exiting the Schöllenen Gorge and points the way into the village, the valley or the new Andermatt Reuss holiday village.
The stone sculpture symbolises Andermatt’s transformation, combining old with new and uniting the near and the far. The sculpture was commissioned as a new landmark for the mountain village by Egyptian investor Samih Sawiris (Andermatt Swiss Alps).
The artist and his work
Ugo Roninone, who was born in Brunnen and now lives in New York, is an internationally renowned artist. His oeuvre encompasses installations, drawings, painting and films. With its impressive size and simultaneous simplicity, the “Human Nature” stone sculpture demonstrates the mountains’ elemental force. The stone stack seems to be a matchstick man turned into stone. Here in Andermatt, it becomes one with the surrounding Alps.
Andermatt became interesting for tourists thanks to none other than Goethe, who travelled through Switzerland in the 18th century and raved about the mountain village. The Russian military general Suworow made the region even more famous during the war of 1799 against the French forces of Napoleon. When the connection from G\u00f6schenen to Ticino via the Gotthard was made passable in 1840, the era of stagecoaches began. Today, the Historical Stagecoach reminds of this time as an exclusive way to get to Ticino.<\/p>
The world wars in the 20th century drew the military to Andermatt, where it had stationed a large number of staff until the 1990s. The Sasso San Gottardo Fortress inside the mountain is now open to the public and offers a unique insight into this part of history. In the new millennium, one of the largest tourist projects in Switzerland has been realised in Andermatt - Andermatt Swiss Alps. The Egyptian investor Samih Sawiris is building a new resort next to the existing village centre. 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