Spiders impress with their eight eyes and eight legs. Their webs are architectural marvels – their hunting techniques are bizarre and unique. Their vibratory sense serves as an extremely creative sense of hearing, and their species diversity runs into the tens of thousands.

Measuring over three metres in length, two metres in width and a good seventy metres in height, the hand-polished brass-bronze sculpture “Thrilling 8” is impressive and powerful. Hand-hammered and modelled, it has the incorruptible quality of sculpture

The eight eyes cast out of glass, differently coloured with pigments, are fascinating, being realized in “lost form”, set in bronze and gilded by hand. For completion, cameras are used in four eyes to simulate the 360 degree view of the spider in a room of 6 x 6 metres. Thus, the viewers are captured and projected into the room to observe themselves. “Thrilling 8” reflects society’s surveillance mania. A play of skilful craftsmanship and the art of extravagant presentation, coupled with the touch of a jewel.

Kohlrabi needs between eight and ten weeks from seed to finished fruit. It is generally considered a cheap vegetable, although it is rich in vitamin C and contains very important nutrients that we need every day – it is, in other words, food for life.
This was the key inspiration to create a homage to the miracle of seed and fruit in the form of a sculpture measuring 75x45 cm. Symbolic of a “valuable” food for life. A brass-bronze alloy kohlrabi modelled and hammered by hand. Hand polished several times, matt blasted, leaves and veins finely polished with specially made tools, 24 carat gold plated and finally finely polished several times. To realise this work, it was necessary to collaborate with specialists who refine interiors for Bugatti and Rolls Royce.

The whole working process took over two years to complete this sculpture perfectly. At the same time, this is also the demand I make on my thinking, artistic work and my works.

hammered and shaped by hand.
Base piano lacquer.

The “amygdala” forms part of the limbic system in our brain. It regulates emotional reactions, stores memory content and analyses potential dangers. A reflection that is not unknown to me - from my personal life experience and in my work. This also gave rise to the idea for this work. Intuitively, I succeeded in linking this sculpture to the theme of perception in reference to my preferred style epoch of “Art Deco”.
Brass-bronze alloy, hand-hammered and modelled, specially lacquered. The base is finished with piano lacquer.

Soil and its fertility – a generous host for all beings. It’s in our nature. The symbiosis between humans, fauna and flora, seed and food – we are lucky to have this diversity and lushness. But the future may not be this lucky, because humans have changed, have expelled themselves from this paradise. Manically driven to change, manipulate and destroy. Money, greed and power at any price. For too long, they have left their destructive traces in the shape of burnt earth. Yet the brown hare is a stubborn little fellow. In art it also embodies rebirth and resurrection. It is a symbol of fertility and sensual pleasure. It has many friends and there are more every day. What matters to them is to cultivate the “field” of the future with empathy and diligence. To preserve the symbiosis between humans, fauna and flora. And to redefine our work together in order to create quality of life in the future as well, space for everyone and everything.

The total work of art also includes a classically composed piece of music based on the well-known “Flight of the Bumblebee”. In further dialogue, a fairy tale is created to bring children closer to nature and to be an inspiration for future generations.

Hand-forged, chased,
ground and polished by hand

The brass plates were shaped with endless hammer strokes, polished, chiselled and then finepolished by hand. The result: A three-metre high monument whose every meticulously formed groove, recess and gnarled shape reflects its 500-year history. It is the history of a tree rooted in the same spot for centuries, never the centre of attention and yet always right there. A special wax polishing technique is used to make the brass/bronze olive tree shimmer like gold to symbolise the endless abundance of nature.
This olive tree also visualises the roots of history – the deeper and the further back we go, the more exciting it gets. This is the only way to show just how important a role time plays in human life and in nature. It is only when we imagine ourselves on the streets of ancient Pompeii that we can properly understand where we came from and why we must absolutely be led by nature and must use, not exploit, it.

The “Olive Tree Pompeii” reflects the events of the last centuries and the events taking place in the present and is a symbol of the endless power and beauty of nature.

Hammered, shaped, polished and ground

Hammered and shaped, painted in six passes, sanded (vintage look patina)

Hammered, shaped, polished and ground

Secret compartment with scorpion • Pedestal: Palisander wood, 12 x varnished + polished, 230 x 60 x 65 cm • Squared timber overlays of the pedestal also in brass/bronze, 90 x 11 x 11 cm • Manually forged – beaten out and then moulded • Structure manually finished – polished by hand • Each individual cartridge manufactured by hand and soldered in • Brass bar: Wooden structure, manually engraved with steel engraving pen

The story of Little Red Riding Hood as a metaphor in the form of a predator-like set of teeth with a secret compartment as a throat. Bronze and brass are the high-quality materials for the beast that seems to devour everything. Hand-hammered, counter-driven and thus brought into shape - that’s the sculptural process. Elaborately polished by hand in the finishing stage. A reference to a world that seems threatening and at the same time evil, that seems to devour everything and at the same time is difficult to fathom. And yet with a spark of human hope at the end, like in a fairy tale that takes a turn for the better.

A sculpture (220x38x105cm) with proverbial ambiguity that plays creatively and surprisingly, shockingly yet hopefully with our conventional expectations and memories.