Raimund
Kummer:
On Sculpture
Essay Herbert Molderings, glossary Raimund Kummer
German / English
Hardcover
with dust jacket, Japanese binding
24 x 28 cm
184 pages
120 color and 10 b/w illustrations
978-3-935567-22-0
out of print |
In On
Sculpture, the sculptor Raimund Kummer (born in 1954) looks back at the last twenty
years of his artistic career in which photography and his treatment of
photographic images have always played a key role – as reflection,
sketch, or sculpture in its own right. This volume of 130 exquisitely
printed photographs shows how Raimund Kummer employs the photographic
medium to appropriate spatial situations and integrate them into his
artistic repertoire. New works evolve from found or staged constellations.
The sculpture is compounded by its surroundings, and photography is transformed
into an object. The space we actually see itself becomes sculpture.
This
artist’s book shows how sculptural photography has gained sharper
contours as a genre in its own right; through its focused concentration
it offers the sensuous basis for Herbert Molderings’ fascinating
thematic analysis. With reference to Kummer’s photographic oeuvre,
Molderings’ essay discusses the innovative aesthetics of delimitation
that is evident in the artist’s photo sculptures and sculptural photographs
from the past couple of decades. The artist’s own glossary tells
the story behind his works and opens up connections. |