Sculpt Color – Perlenturm

About the sculpture: Render4Sculpt, 351 parts – a ring of 36 spheres, five stacked rings of 36 spheres each and a tower of five cores of 3 × 3 × 3 cubes. As a 3D print in the Sculpture Garden: “Perlenturm”, 25 cm, work number 2026.00.288. In black and white: Sculpt – Perlenturm.

The work belongs to the Sculpt Color series, the ninth after Minimal Quaderspuren, Minimal Sphere, Raw Cube, Minimal Ring, Ring Quader, Veil, Fluid and Sculpt: the sculptures from Sculpt in the colours of the Minimal series, with fixed light and shadow, gently nudged and swinging elastically to rest. The set-up is described under “Sculpt Color – Ringkern”, the first work in the series.

Placement in the post-digital model of positing

Chains of spheres in colour around a tower of cubes: each ring carries its own tone, and after brief nudges the spheres and the tower swing elastically to rest.

The series works with grid, rhythm and repetition – in the body as in the colour: the sculpture is built from identical cubes, and each of its levels carries its own tone from the palette of the Minimal series. Deviation arises over time: after brief nudges, each part swings to rest in its own phase.

Cube, ring and colour field are concrete forms; the grid lies on the colour as a light line. They receive an informal impulse from the movement and from the space: fractal clouds that darken the surfaces and drift on, and white points that flow into space like water and gather into fractal groups. 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 sculpture is first of all an object – as a 3D print it stands in the Sculpture Garden. With fixed light and shadow, the view presents it as a body in space even more clearly than in Sculpt, and the colour leads it back to the Minimal series. The series is thus a virtual sculpture in motion – a sculptural digital animation.