Kleiner Raumanker

A sculpture with no top and no bottom: Kleiner Raumanker by Maximilian Verhas

A single band of silver, laid compactly around itself and interlocked, shapes the “Kleiner Raumanker” into a self-tensioned whole – as if space itself had knotted for a moment. The smooth, clearly cut surfaces and the open, circular perforations make the sculpture appear completely different depending on the viewing angle: at times like a hook embracing itself, at times like an abstract cogwheel at rest.

Like the “Offener Rollkörper”, the “Kleiner Raumanker” belongs to the Rollkörper group of works that Maximilian Verhas has been exploring since the early 1990s. The idea behind it: to create a sculpture in which all sides are of equal standing – in which there is no fixed definition of bottom, top, front or back. “My intention with the sculptures was never to produce a beautiful object, but an all-round one”, says Maximilian Verhas in a video interview. It is precisely this idea of all-round visibility that makes the “Kleiner Raumanker” an object that does not reveal itself to the viewer in one fixed view, but unfolds its full play of forms only as one walks around it and turns it.

Cast in 2010 as a solid silver cast from 2.2 kg of pure fine silver and with a height of 11 cm, the “Kleiner Raumanker” is a compact yet conceptually demanding work in the Verhas programme at BullionArt. Each of the 25 signed and numbered examples can be positioned freely in the room – entirely in keeping with the idea that there is no “right” orientation for this sculpture.

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