Pferd / Horse

Produced as a casting based on a clay model, this lifelike animal is depicted with expressionless, objective realism. Sand, pebbles, and casting seams are visible along the surface of the concrete sculpture, serving as formal elements of intentional objectification.

The intention here is not personalization or abstraction as an expression of individual creativity; instead, the artist seeks to represent the universal image of a horse, a form of livestock that enabled and supported the process of civilization.

It is the image of nature as it has been made to serve; because of its instinctive behavioral patterns, it has retained a sense of distance and freedom — and this is certainly not without skeptical distance from the idea of idealized innocence given to animals in German expressionist works like those by Franz Marc.