The sculpture courses for advanced students focus on one theme. This course invites you to explore the basic creative principle (repetition). This can lead to further topics.
"Repetition"
The topic may sound strange at first. In the context of sculpture, we mean "the repetition of forms". In this course, we would like to explore the great creative potential inherent in this aspect.
Nature is permeated by repetition. One glance is enough to recognize it in various forms: As an accumulation in large numbers (fish scales, leaves on a tree, hair on fur, waves on a sand dune, etc), as the repetition of a principle (angle of a crystal, turtle shell, berry, etc) or in growth, or the "repetition of a form from a previous one" (snail shell, earthworm, bud, pine cone, horsetail, coral). The list is long, as nature is diverse. There are certainly many more interesting examples. Ernst Haeckel illustrated this beautifully in "Art Forms of Nature".
However, the repetition of forms also accompanies us in everyday life: In architecture, in the structure of textiles, in the plaster of a wall, in foam, on a keyboard, in a whisk.
In modern art, we encounter repetition, for example, in Klee, in Warhol (as a flood of media images and consumer goods), in "minimal art" (Donald Judd, industrial production), in "land art" (Richard Long arranges stones along an endless straight line in the landscape) or even in the music of John Cale and Philipp Glass. We think further back, to the megalithic fields of early times, to the relief bands of the Greeks, to ornament anyway and then to rhythm in general.
Repetition is everywhere. If you start to observe and think about it, the ideas just tumble out. We are open to all approaches in the course, from classical sculpture to land art.
Prerequisite: Good basic experience in stone craftsmanship
Course language: German
The instructor also speaks: English, Italian, French, Swahili