Honey Spoon

The warm orange colour and translucent material of the sculpture’s cover in its organic, shell-like form evokes a spoonful of flowing honey indeed, even if this is a purely abstract shape. As is often the case with this artist’s works, it consists of a complex structure of metal bars covered by a “skin” of glass fibre reinforced plastic. Both the lines of the substructure and the cover which forms the volume remain visible, entering into an interplay of shape and colour, line and body, inside and outside. The opaque cover, made of plastic here and of wire in other works by the artists, does not only define the volume of the sculpture but also leaves the different, overlapping levels of design visible. Despite its large-scale character and its weight of more than 200 kg, the sculpture seems to float lightly in the air, seeming to move in the wind like a sail.
The ”Honey Spoon,” created in 2009 and first exhibited in Japan, looks back on an eventful history in Gütersloh, too: It was placed in front of Kunstverein as part of a solo exhibition of Axel Anklam’s works in 2014. In 2015 it found a more long-term location for four years on a green at Mauerstraße 13. Severely damaged by wind and weather, the work had to be repaired by the artist and given a new orange cover. At the initiative of the Verein zur Förderung plastischer Kunst in Stadt und Kreis Gütersloh e.V. (association for the promotion of sculptural arts in Gütersloh), the sculpture was taken to its present location at Blessenstätte opposite the Kunstverein in Veerhofhaus, where illumination was added so that it constitutes a warm colourful highlight there even when it is dark.