Sculpture "Together" (2012), cast stone

Sculpture made of cast stone. Limited edition of 16 copies, numbered and signed. Size 47 x 10 x 9 cm (h/w/d). Weight approx. 3.6 kg.

Producer: ars mundi Edition Max Büchner GmbH, Bödekerstraße 13, 30161 Hanover, Germany, [email protected]

A black-and-white photograph of the German artist and sculptor Angelika Kienberger at work, using a mallet and chisel to craft a wooden sculpture.

About Angelika Kienberger

The sculptures of the German sculptor Angelika Kienberger are always reflecting her emotional life. During the process she lets personal experiences flow. These experiences can be represented visually and emotionally but they can also be evoked through identification with a certain theme. Through artistic representation, this experience should be comprehensible to the viewer.

All elements of reality are an inspiration for themes for the artist. However, particularly the human being is the focus of her work – mainly couples or women. Her works of art are stylised representations that radiate vitality from the stillness, from the movement that is only hinted at.

Collective term for all casting processes that ars mundi carries out with the help of specialised art foundries.

Stone Casting
Similar to artificial marble, with the difference that instead of marble powder, the stone to be replicated is used in powder form.

Bonded Bronze (Cold-Cast-Bronze)
Bronze powder is polymer-bonded. Through special polishing and patination techniques, the surface of the cast takes on an appearance similar to that of bronze.

Imitation Wood
In order to guarantee absolute fidelity to the original, an artificially manufactured imitation wood is used as a base material that features typical wood characteristics: density, workability, colour, and surface structure.

Ceramic Mould Casting
Ceramic mould casting usually requires the use of casting clay, which is then fired and optionally glazed. Instead of the usual rubber moulds, plaster moulds are often used in ceramic casting and porcelain production.

Cast Bronze (Lost-Wax-Casting)
For the cast bronze, the thousand-year-old lost-wax technique is used. It's the best, but also the most complex method of producing sculptures.

Term for an art object (sculpture, installation) that, according to the artist’s intention, is produced in multiple copies within a limited and numbered edition.

Multiples enable the "democratization" of art by making the work accessible and affordable for a wider audience.

A plastic work of sculptural art made of wood, stone, ivory, bronze or other metals.

While sculptures made of wood, ivory, or stone are carved directly from the material block, in bronze casting, a working model is prepared at first. Usually, it is made of clay or other easily mouldable materials.

The prime time of sculpture after the Greek and Roman antiquity was the Renaissance. Impressionism gave a new impulse to the sculptural arts. Contemporary artists such as Jorg Immendorf, Andora, and Markus Lupertz also enriched sculptures with outstanding works.