Sculpt – 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.

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

Chains of spheres around a tower of cubes: the spheres breathe and wander, each ring rotates in its own time, and the tower holds the centre while veils of points flow into space.

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.