Schloss Ringenberg

Gudrun Bott, artistic director Schloss Ringenberg:

“Treated by an obsessive interested as an artist he pinpoints the sometimes odd phenomena in how German cities that had been highly destroyed by Wold War II were rebuilt in the 50th and 60th  – sometimes with same ruthlessness as they had been demolished before.  However keeping the historical tragedy in mind and being aware of the political circumstances this – let’s say – individual fascination never turns into an ostensible critic. More it is the view of a sculptor, who is thrilled by the outcomes of mixing up modernistic and historicizing aspects in the scope of urban planning. Two pieces of this work series recently are exhibited in Schloss Ringenberg.

His subtle and highly precise sculptures generate in regard to perception the luring effect of ambiguity. For instance aspects of manual work are subverted by the ironic turn into a kind of fake spiral, while the artist took the effort to acquit the promise of cheap decoration slats from property market by spending hours with grinding the wooden ledges. What gives the impression of a maquette, such as commonly known from traditional History Museums, suddenly switches to an absurd formation of stage-like figurations.”