Sculpt – Kugelringe

About the sculpture: Render4Sculpt, 76 parts – two rings of 36 spheres each around a column of four cubes. As a 3D print in the Sculpture Garden: “Kugelschläuche”, 10 cm, work number 2026.00.290.

The work belongs to the Sculpt series, the eighth after Minimal Quaderspuren, Minimal Sphere, Raw Cube, Minimal Ring, Ring Quader, Veil and Fluid: sculptures from the Sculpture Garden, set in motion – each part in its own time, with veils of points that flow into space and fade. The set-up is described under “Sculpt – Ringkern”, the first work in the series.

Placement in the post-digital model of positing

Two chains of spheres wind around a column of four cubes: the spheres breathe and wander, the cubes turn over, and each part follows the movement in its own time.

The series works with grid, rhythm and repetition – in the body itself: the sculpture is built from identical cubes, lined up into rings, layered into a core. Deviation arises over time: each part follows the same movement, but in its own phase and with its own rebound; calm phases alternate with bursts of movement.

Cube and ring are concrete forms, black, drawn only by their edges and a fine grid. Only in movement do they receive an informal impulse: in the elastic rotations and in the points that break away from them, flow into space like water and fade. Concrete structures whose interaction has an informal consequence – here again lies the field of tension between the concrete and the informal. Between the two poles the stages can be traced: the cube, the ring, the edge, the point, the veil.

Between the non-representational and the representational: here the sculpture is first of all an object – as a 3D print it stands in the Sculpture Garden. The animation takes it back into virtual space and sets its parts in motion against one another. The series is thus a virtual sculpture in motion – a sculptural digital animation.