Gerhard Richter Zwei graue Doppelspiegel für ein Pendel in Münster Buchkatalog

Schwarz chronicles the idea, the background, the various drafts and the completion of this impressive installation in the baroque, profane-use Dominican church in Münster in minute detail. The Foucault's Pendulum, built according to the artist's own vision, is a scientific instrument made of a 48 kg matt, reflective metal sphere that hangs on a 28.75-metre-long wire above a graduated disk made of 380-million-year-old stone. Four panes of glass, each 600 x 134 cm, enamelled in grey on the back, and reflective on the front, are mounted on the sides of the crossing in two pairs at a slight angle. The book presents Richter's installation as a Gesamtkunstwerk, in which space and light, stillness and movement, architecture and (glass) images, past and present, aesthetic experience and scientific research are brought into relation with each other.