Untitled (graues Holz), 2012

The artwork pledge

• QUALITY EDUCATION
• AFFORDABLE AND CLEAN ENERGY
• INDUSTRY, INNOVATION, AND INFRASTRUCTURE
• REDUCED INEQUALITIES
• RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION
• PEACE, JUSTICE, AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS

Tags

• Abstract
• Abuse of Power
• Austria
• Brutalism
• Casting
• Concrete
• Europe
• Existentialism
• Figurative
• France
• Geometric Abstraction
• Metamorphosis
• Nobuo Sekine
• Paul Cézanne
• Power Structure
• Sculpture 3D
• Social
• Time
• Violence
• War

About this artwork

"Untitled (graues Holz)" (2012) consists of a loose arrangement of eleven planks of different sizes where the skin of wood is transferred onto the concrete element. Composed as in a found, maybe abandoned construction site, the sculptural ensemble seems to want to preserve a certain quality from decaying.

Thrust, jerked, thrown, wrapped, rolled – in Christoph Weber’s hands, concrete, the commonplace material par excellence, finds constantly new and surprising forms. His objects move as if naturally between the expended brutality and the unexpected poetry of the material. According to the artist, cement and concrete are a symbol of the Anthropocene, the most common material consumed by mankind after water. [based on the text and interview by Gabriel Roland]

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