Sculpt – Würfelringe

About the sculpture: Render4Sculpt, 99 cubes – two rings of 36 cubes each around a core of 3 × 3 × 3 cubes, the forerunner of Ringkern. As a 3D print in the Sculpture Garden: “Würfelringe”, 25 cm, work number 2026.00.293.

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

The forerunner of Ringkern: two rings of cubes around a single core – the cubes of the rings spin, the core turns over, and each part springs back 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.