29 June 2019

Bulgarian artist Daniela Kostova X Vienna Insurance Group present 'Future Dreaming' toddler in space suit

Since 2006, the Vienna Insurance Group invites artists for wrapping the tower 'Ringturm', the location of the head office of VIG. The first artwork was Christian Ludwig Attersee's 'Don Giovanni'. Last year over summer, Gottfried Helnwein made aware of the cruelties of war and terror with 'I saw this'; the material of the wrapping was recycled as bag collection.

In 2019, Bulgarian artist Daniela Kostova contributed 'Future Dreaming' (German title 'Zukunftsträume'), a hope- and playful artwork showing on the one side a toddler in a space suit with peaceful white dove at the helmet; on the other side of the tower with direction to the University of Vienna, a mobile with planets, astronaut and rocket is on view. At the press release at wst-versicherungsverein.at, the mobile is described as object that "... indicates a change in perspective: gazing at the Earth from far away, at the fragility of our planet, the environment in which the children of the future will live."
Well, it's very likely that toddlers of today will become space explorers of the universe. Hopefully, future societies will not inevitably migrate from Mother Earth and can return at any time.

fig.: The 2019 artistic wrapping of the Ringturm was officially opened on 26 June at a ceremony attended by Austrian Foreign and Culture Minister Alexander Schallenberg and Bulgaria's Deputy Culture Minister Amelia Gesheva. On the picture from left artist Daniela Kostova, Alexander Schallenberg (Austrian Federal Minister for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs, and for the EU, Arts, Culture and Media), Amelia Gesheva (Deputy Culture Minister of the Republic of Bulgaria) and Günter Geyer (Managing Board Chairman of Wiener Städtische Versicherungsverein, the main shareholder of Vienna Insurance Group.)
Photo: © Wiener Städtische Versicherungsverein / Richard Tanzer.

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