Lotte Thuenker

Forms in balance
Lotte Thuenker’s non-figurative, perfectly crafted sculptures play with surfaces and lines. She explores the balance between stillness and movement, lightness and mass. Her works in marble, alabaster, onyx and bronze show surprising forms from different angles. She works at the international sculpture studio Pescarella Studio in Pietrasanta near Pisa, which she co-founded in 2011.

She dissolves her objects from nature such as birds, shells or sea creatures into the abstract and takes her motifs to the limits of dissolution. This is how clear, organic forms and primal elements such as the spiral or the circle are created. She often works graphic signs into the surface of the stone sculptures.
If you look at these works from all sides, If you look at these works from all sides, go around them and look through them, you will see what the sculptress is dealing with again and again, in countless variations: the sculptures seem to be alive, they Heart Shell I, rotate, rise, roll out, look curiously into the world or seem to glide into the sea or air – they are always in motion.
Many of the works sit on a single point, you can turn them with a fingertip, you can move them – and they come back into balance. Lotte Thuenker got this feeling for statics from her original work as an architect. The sculptures play with contrasts: concave and convex, elements are smooth, even and others rough and show the working process.

The artist is less concerned with depicting what she has seen or illustrating what has already happened. The sculptures abstract and reduce to the elements
elements, phenomena and feelings inherent in everything. They do not want to tell a story, but they seem deeply familiar to us, we recognise them and believe they have always been in the world.