Ralf Sander

Ralf Sander (* 1963 in Berlin ) is a German sculptor and installation artist. With his installations, he deals with architecture, transformation and communication. His multi-layered work is presented in exhibitions worldwide since the mid- 1990s.

Life

Ralf Sander is the son of a psychoanalyst and an engineer in the automotive industry. After graduating from high school and the death of his stepfather, Klaus Komoll which left him a small sailing ship, he walked around 1988-1990 the world before turning to art. The contact with the art of the Pacific Islands and Papua New Guinea influenced his artistic development. In 1992 he graduated from the master class at the UDK Berlin. A DAAD scholarship enabled Sander to travel to China and Japan to study Asian art and philosophy. 2004 Ralf Sander visiting professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.

The annual exhibition aquamediale was initiated in 2005 by him and curated. Ralf Sander also taught as a professor of sculpture at the Seoul National University and as a Reader ( Associate Professor ) at the University of Ulster in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Works ( selection)

For almost all of his early works, the human body is the subject and the basis for life-size wooden sculptures that were made ​​from a single log of wood. Since the turn of the millennium also recorded a turnaround from Ralf in Sanders works. He experimented with different media; including film, performance and photography. Sander currently applies in his work on social groups and integrated - citing Joseph Beuys concept of social sculpture - their participation in the work process (eg Roland Transfer Child's Play Child, Learning is opening yourself ). In 2008, he started the World Saving machine cycle, a visionary project at the interface of art and science. Analogous to the deconstruction of the "big visions " (eg, progress, reason, art) modernity, his work is now dealt with the implications of a relativized notion of truth. His work is currently focused on weather modification, the conversion of solar energy into ice ( both literally and metaphorically ) and the use of renewable energies in art projects. Ralf Sander can be called a pioneer in Renewable Energy Sculpture movement. The World Saving Machine II converts carbon dioxide into oxygen. The project was in collaboration with KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology ) of the University Daedeok and Seoul National University, Korea, developed.

Sanders first, created for outdoor work, was the monument to Martin Heinrich Klaproth, established on 25 June 1996 on the campus of the Technical University of Berlin. His most famous sculpture ( art ) is the Mirage or Ladybird transformation in Pusan ​​, Korea. He realized the sculpture Ladybird transformation for the Busan Cinema Center. The building is by Wolf D. Prix, Coop Himmelb (l) au, designed as a venue for the Busan International Film Festival, Asia's largest film festival. Ladybird transformation transforms depending on the angle from which it is viewed from a border woman in a seagull in flight. The color of the sculpture is constantly changing due to the massive LED screen on the underside of the roof. With 95 meters is the umbrella under which the Ladybird transformation sculpture stands, the largest cantilevered roof of the world and the Guinness World Record.

Works in public space

  • Klaproth Stele (1996 ) - Technical University of Berlin
  • Beuys (1996 ) - Robert Bosch Foundation, Stuttgart
  • St. Dominic (1999 ) - St. Boniface, Mainz
  • Childs Play (2005)
  • Roland Shuttle ( 2006) - in the Brandenburg district Hohenstücken near Brandenburg
  • World Saving Machine ( since 2008) - Crane Art Center, Philadelphia, USA, Kaist University
  • The Hidden Artist ( 2012) - Iksan, South Korea
  • Ladybird transformation ( Mirage, 2012) Busan Film Center, South Korea
  • Belfast Seahorse (2013 ) - at the Port of Belfast

Awards

  • Working

Memorial for Martin Heinrich Klaproth

St. Dominicus

World Saving Machine 1

World Saving Machine III

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