As part of the Global Stone project an African rock artwork has been placed in the Green Point Park. The 20 ton stone, inscribed in English, Afrikaans and Xhosa with the word Hope, is a donation to the City of Cape Town.
‘The City of Cape Town’s Arts & Culture Branch is honoured to receive this piece of public art which is not only part of a worldwide project, but is one about hope, peace and a symbol of mankind’s unity. Being part of the Global Stone project, and being chosen as the site to represent the continent, is indeed a privilege,’ said the City’s Mayoral Committee Member for Community Services and Health, Councillor Patricia van der Ross.
The German artist, Wolfgang Kraker von Schwarzenfeld, donated the stone with no financial implications for the City.
The project consists of ten stones of which five are placed in countries which represent each continent, and the other five are placed in Berlin. Cape Town will be the only City in Africa to host a Global Stone Project. All the stones are sculptured, polished and inscribed.
According to the artist, the pairs of stones from the continents represent the five steps towards peace: Africa (hope), Europe (awakening), Asia (forgiveness), America (love) and Australia (peace).
The aim of the project is to look for two particularly characteristic stones of around 30 tons on each continent , one of which will be given a place in the Great Tiergarten in Berlin near the Brandenburg Gate and its counterpart will remain in a special place in the country of origin. The polished reflective surfaces of the stones should be aligned in such a way that every year at the summer solstice on June 21, the rays of the sun create a connection between the stones in the continents and their sister stones in Berlin as well as between the five Berlin stones. This is supposed to symbolize the connectedness of people all over the world.
There are currently stones from Russia , Venezuela , Australia and South Africa in the Berlin zoo.
WHAT & WHERE:: Global Stone. Green Point Park, 1 Fritz Sonnenberg Rd, Green Point, Cape Town, 8051
INFO: Green Point Park features in the Cape Town Green COASTAL Map | Find your way around the Green Point Park with VoiceMap
See also Cape Town Green Map
