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Carbon 0112358
Spatial drawing made from beech and pine charcoal
Dimensions variable
2016 |
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Ulrike Mohr’s artistic approach utilizes material
transformation processes that are influenced not only by complex research and
handed-down knowledge, but also by chance occurrences.
Her position as a
sculptor arises from the observation of nature and a process-oriented treatment
of context-related materials, which she transfers into poetic installations
whose temporal dimensions are intrinsic to the ephemeral substances. Over the
past years, the burning of char has become a central modus operandi in her work.
This today almost extinct profession of gradually heating wood in the absence
of air until it is rendered physically constant is practiced by the artist
herself, taking into account the various historical, cultural, environmental
and metaphorical implications associated with carbon.
Mohr refers to her works
as “spatial drawings” – drawings made with charcoal, one of the oldest drawing
material, but not by applying pigment on paper, but manifest as lines in
three-dimensional space. Her rotating charcoal column responds to one of the
characteristic architectural features of CoCA Toruń (though one which is most often disguised by the
built-in exhibition design), while the new spatial drawing Carbon 0112358 playfully refers to the Fibonacci ratio. While
previous installations focused on the natural property of the material, like
the traces of growth visible in different kinds of wood that she mostly
collects on site, the artist here used industrially cut timber beans to achieve
a more minimalist aesthetic.
Eva Scharrer
