Kräftebündel / Combined Forces

Norbert Kricke’s Combined Forces is the first abstract sculpture to be given a permanent public location in the city of Bonn. Atop a tall pedestal in front of the Rheinisches Landesmuseum, interlocking bundles of steel rods reach further and further upwards into the space. It’s as if gravity were suspended by the forces of the diverging groups of elements.
The depiction of space, time, and movement within an immovable sculpture is the common thread in all of Nobert Kricke’s works, which are reminiscent of linear drawings that extend out into three-dimensional space. The physicality of the sculpture is dispersed and functions as the pure representation of a balance of forces, which build on each other and are mutually dependent, but still follow their own dynamic.