The human being at the centre
Sculpture as a contemporary language has very specific possibilities for taking up positions and formulating attitudes. Ideally, the theme/image idea and the appropriately chosen image carrier combine to form a highly condensed spatial structure.
This very figurative, tangible presence in the space, the possibility of controlling and structuring it, results from the formal power of the composition, the interplay of volumes and cross-sections, but, and this is essentially the quality of the whole endeavour, from the credibility of the content, the authenticity of what is depicted. Their naturally material-induced inertia acts like a filter and is very helpful for the artist's serious, lasting and credible self-questioning on the way to the picture.
Prof Bruno Raetsch
