gunhild

bronze cast
'mother' of the 'wilde hilde' (see this blogpost)
approx 7cm high, full cast or hollow cast.
3/8, 8/8 available.

vladimir

vladimir: approx. 13cm high and 1,2kg heavy.
full bronze cast.








available are no. 2/8 - 8/8

side view, pic by david nassim

Wide Screen Buddha

Wide Screen Buddha

Nowadays a religious stimulus satiation cannot be avoided, no matter where you try to escape to.
We see mullahs online or on TV shows, we all have already heard of those funny TV preachers you cross every now and then in US Television, and some hindu priest will definitely tell you on an indian broadcast what Hanuman or Ganesha suggests to do.

Infront of this background I wondered how a Bodhisattva would act, when he finds himself in front of a TV camera, being asked for a sermon…
…and I had this image of him bursting out in laughter and telling everyone to just enjoy life, not taking yourself too seriously and laugh out loud when you catch yourself being stuck in old patterns.

To transform this image into my language, I chose nine equally shaped steel blocks, and arranged them into a video installation format, with an approximate 16:9 proportion, and added my sign in 24ct gold leaf on the upper left block, just as if ‘I’ would be CNN or Al Jazeera or ..

So when you install your Wide Screen Buddha, please put a candle and incense sticks underneath the installation, and adjoin some nice flowers. You will find out that when you take some minutes in front of him, a smile will sneak onto your face and your mood -no matter how dark it might have been before- will lighten up real quick…

The Wide Screen Buddha exists so far in approx 90 x 105 x 2 cm (above) and in 150 x 260 x 1 cm (below).

Bourrée Sorcière and The Fence Riders

Bourrée Sorcière, 2006

steel, 24ct gold leaf
approx. 180 x 180 x 1cm

Bourrée Sorcière, front view

Bourrée Sorcière and The Fence Riders, side view

It is the year 1952 ... Alexej Sacharoff looks back to a fulfilled artists’ life in dance, stage and costume design as well as painting. Nearly fifty years he performed and produced formidable art pieces. At that time he still continues creating more celebrated works, and after a lifetime of travelling and moving around the globe he settles down in Rome. Then he scetches another choreography onto a paper, the ‘bourée fantasque’... 

... 53 years later, I found the scetch in a book while doing research on Alexej and Clothilde Sacharoff, the famous dancers couple. They have been in the surroundings of ‘Der Blaue Reiter’ (‘The Blue Rider’) and members of ‘Neue Künstlervereinigung München’ which both have been trailblazing artists groups, developing abstract art and Expressionism. Members of those artist groups have been Wassily Kandinsky, Thomas von Hartmann, Gabriele Münter, Marianne von Werefkin and others.

As dance and dancers are deeply inspiring for my work, I loved it straight away. 

I translated the choreography into my formal language and developed 'The Fence Riders’ and their

Matrix, ‘Bourrée Sorcière’, where the score is leaf gilded on.

The Fence Riders, still in progress

aurora

bronze, approx. 20 x 15 x 12 cm.
originally designed as an award for a yearly charity event which was supposed to collect money to help needy children and their families.

AURORA means the rising sun, a symbol for me for a beginning life, such as a childs' life should be.

what is a teddy for a child? no matter if a little monkey, an elefant or lion, or just classical, a bear, such a cuddly toy is a central figure in a childs life.

this soft toy often means a real character to a child, it gives hope, a sense of care, affection, even some protection. this comfy toy sometimes talks instead of the child, specially when there is something very uncomfy to say...

the shoulder of the figure is heart shaped, so it is all lasting on shoulders of love. the base of it all has to be made of love to be the right one for the child to support it.

the head is just a sphere. no attributes whatsoever that might point to any kind of race. all children are included, no matter what religion, race or cultural heritage. very important.

and the teddy also symbolizes the child himself, being protected and held by the honoured one.


so to me it meant that the person who would get this award, is the heart, shoulder and -maybe access to the- world for one or more children. this person is a reliable friend and trusted confidant.




casts free to commission: 5/8 - 8/8