Gereon Krebber

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How did you start building sculptures?

How did you start building sculptures?

Sculpting is actually inexpressibly difficult, tangled up in materials, and laborious. There’s always trouble with gravity; it was and always will be physical torture, and ultimately, you always stumble over it. But it is precisely the physical, the immediate presence of something, the epiphany through the material, that won’t let go of me.
I need the tangible body, the haptic, in front of me. I first noticed that at the art school in Düsseldorf; during orientation someone put down a sack of plaster in front of me and I discovered the third dimension for myself. At first I made simple objects out of paper-machee, plaster, and cardboard: a couple of bricks made of cardboard, or a crocodile made out of a pile of rubbish. Step by step, I was able to appropriate a sculptural language for myself, influenced by the biomorphic, inventive forms and material virtuosity of Tony Cragg, as well as the architectural monoliths and archetypical settings of Hubert Kiecol.

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