Cylindrical and cone-shaped yellow forms are stacked to form an approximately 23-metre-high construction. With its bright yellow surfaces and impressive height, the work’s perforated hollow bodies are also dubbed locally the ›cheese straw‹. Whistling through the holes, the wind produces sounds but »barely no singing«, as the title suggests. But read backwards, the title reveals the work’s location: Herner Meer (Herne Sea). Jutting out of the water alongside the yellow edifice that is visible from afar is another sculpture, a kind of ›little sister‹ in grey. At night the group of figures is lit up by a – seemingly – ordinary street lamp. In reality, standing 16 metres high, it towers above its roadside colleagues, which generally reach heights of just three to six metres. Yet in this spot the lamp truly looks too small in relation to the yellow sculpture.
As early as 2009, Bogomir Ecker created a formally similar, monumental sculpture for public space in Brussels. His work »Aliud« (meaning ›something other‹ in Latin) in the Duisburg inner harbour also bears formal resemblance to »reemrenreh (kaum Gesang)«, but is suspended mid-air from a steel girder between two buildings. Likewise, with its seemingly makeshift composition »reemrenreh (kaum Gesang)« also appears to defy gravity. One cannot help wondering whether the water it is standing in really makes for a suitable base or on what it is actually mounted. These abstract figures that somehow look like gadgets and have strange titles are typical of Bogomir Ecker’s sculptural work. Here too, the sculpture retains a disconcerting quality, even if, when viewed from a distance, it marks the jetty as a threshold between the yacht harbour and the lock.