Ring Quader – Stille

The landscapes of this work: outside, a clearing with a few large buildings; inside, bands; on the cuboid, a stepped pyramid on each side.

The work belongs to the Ring Quader series, the fifth after Minimal Quaderspuren, Minimal Sphere, Raw Cube and Minimal Ring: three nested bodies made of rods – a ring, a smaller ring, a coloured cuboid – that hang together like springs and swing with one another. The set-up is described under “Ring Quader – Gleichlauf”, the first work in the series.

Placement in the post-digital model of positing

Almost no movement. What remains are the three bodies, which otherwise only carry.

The series works with grid, rhythm and repetition. Deviation comes from the height at which each rod stands in the ground, and from time: the movement of the outer ring reaches the inner ring and the cuboid only with a delay, so that three bodies carry the same impulse in different phases.

Ring, ring and cuboid are concrete forms, in the ground as in the bodies upon it. Only in their coupling – like springs hanging from one another – does the movement receive an informal impulse: it swings on, overlaps itself and never quite comes to rest. Three concrete structures whose interaction has an informal consequence – here again lies the field of tension between the concrete and the informal.

Between the non-representational and the representational: the spatial view alone already presents the concrete forms representationally, as bodies in space – here as three nested ones that cast shadows on one another. The series is thus in fact a virtual sculpture in motion – a sculptural digital animation.