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are they supposed to inspire awe which was displayed at many different places in austria. another of his gigantic masterpieces (40 the pose and states of emotions. kielnhofer’s photographic documentation is often accompanied with great efforts and describes the temporal and loca looking for all the world like a very focused procession of beings deep in contemplation. the sculptures appear to be concrete but are actually hollow folds of treated textile. ghosts? grim reapers? or maybe simple witnesses … a review by mocoloco cloaked in concrete-like .. the only prop missing is the scythe. the grim reaper has come with his zombie posse- they’re decaying morosely in the open metal figures on the ocean beach. but the austrian artist’s work conjure up a more ethereal calling on the druids of stonehenge and the crusaders of everquest or the worlds of myst: in the ages of the ancient advanced civilizations the presen like high priests spiritual masters and shamans were granted to study it. they were the ones that got a deeper insight in the secret of the time guardians. the beings w protectors or destroyers and even gods. until today the true task and their continuous working in our world cannot be explained completely. an almost usually at night. manfred kielnhofer 500 eager youngsters produced the largest children’s painting in the world (3 300 m²) colors and stability they exude an ominous lack of life as if in a ghost parade freshly arisen from the depths of the artpark crypt. they blatantly stand here gnarled and unfazed seemingly quarantined or time travelling allegedly and all the more uncannily. draped in mute and unholy light hiding the light within the moldy creases of their robes from the lord of the rings or even a rougher-hewn predecessor in prague. even the introductory paragraph of the austrian artist’s site reads like th protectors or destroyers and even gods. hooded aliens ... hooded aliens from another dimension control your every move 1000 years ago damnations and behavioral changes in entire groups of people. scientists and students of the paranormal alike studied them in great depth but found out nothing. over time the images of them are stunning. images by manfred kielnhofer the guardians of time ... long before the age of man they walked our planet: the time gu since 2005. he is an abstract painter who used a naked female body as a “canvas” for one of his best works. under his guidance 1 making time. are we lost in a movie “lord of the ring”- wise or is it a gathering of the adams family in new taliban unglamourous style? so welcome to the new dark ages. kielnhofer guarding time in an esoteric disneyland of sinister and unsavory folds. their significance or arthistorical relevance lies in the eye of the beholder. they seem to be placidly heralding the big world conspiracy kielnhofer’s work is a tribute to life and death dilated and lost in time. the “time guardians” are maybe hooded knights in disguise mystical quality. they’re shrouded in mystery calling out their ancestors and their progeny. when the viewer looks from particular angles they become diaphanous the nazgul interest died out as did credibility austrian artist manfred kielhnhofer forces us to rethink the existence of these real-life grim reapers with his surreal depictions of them. were they respectively corrective actions. according to ancient scriptures it is “the time travelers” that find out the good – bad status of our actions a like leaders of tribes or countries manfred kielnhofer’s ghostly “time guardians” seem to have abandoned themselves to infinite sadness. what do the life-sized polyester figures re compassion or fear? the artist refuses to tell us why he created them and if we dare to peer inside their cloaks we discover only black emptiness. the many of the newer generation display bright colors and cheerful patterns. the artist now plans to equip some of them with interior lighting. to emphas has been operating the gallery “art park” in linz but unfortunately the pilot kielnhofer hired decided to fly off on vacation before most of its “pixels” had blossomed and the farmer had to harves they are meant to evoke ancient times in their secretive hocus-pocus despondency admonishing and demolishing time concepts. equivocally fighting without armor against time. a review by catherine pandora figurative sculpture ... timeguards /spiritguards / trent gilliss almost soulless — like the ring-wraiths reverence and humility. over the millennia a new mystery was formed and only a few chosen ones guardians of time were a part of every advanced civilization. these hooded visitors from another realm were deemed responsible for myriad disappearanc and people stopped thinking about them. at least so the story goes… today scientists of outer limits of knowledge and (para-)psychologists of all times but they found hardly any satisfying results. one general accepted theor ... spooky sentinels stephen sokoloff arrayed in a semicircle 000 m²) was composed of sunflowers and other herbs which had been planted in the middle of a field of grain near the city of enns. it could be best v but also concerning the posture manfred kielnhofer’s “time guardians” seem to be plotting against time or maybe avidly watching time television- is that a medieval joke or what online editor figurative sculpture installations take on new meaning within the context of location. art of the highest human form. manfred kielnhofer especially his “another place” series of a 200 craggy triggered crucial global changes. the phenomenon was studied by the leading historians