R.P. Art
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- R.P. Art
- 2442 NW Market Street
- Suite #157
- Seattle, WA 98107
- United States of America
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A FEW WORDS
FROM ULRICH PAKKER
Cycles, circles, rejuvenation and re-use have always been part of my sculptural work. Every site I have worked with has circularities, perhaps natural or architectural or industrial. I work to highlight the site’s characteristics with my sculpture, bringing together the site and the art to create a different constellation. In my water features especially, circularities constitute the over-arching concept and inspiration.
Esthetically, the universal form of the circle unifies my work and the site which surrounds it, drawing the viewer into the curvalinear movement of spinning wheels and cyclonic water swirls. The metal circles “dissolve” into water flows or glassflows, depending on what feels appropriate to the site. In my water features, the surge of water completes the circles and evokes an alchemy as stainless steel transforms into liquid and back into metal. Once the water of my fountains drains down into the (hidden) reservoir, the water is then recycled to reappear again at the top of the cycle, to fall again through the wheels within wheels, circles within circles. With the Glassflow series, the “flow” is arrested in its movement, creating a striking tableau for the viewer.
I was 14 when I began my apprenticeship in Germany as a sheet metal worker learning skills that would allow me to create the complex geometries of my art.
I am a self-taught artist.
During the 1980’s I discovered stainless steel, now the primary medium for my artwork although I also create works in titanium, bronze, silver and gold. Patinas allow me to add startling colors to my work from turquoise to coffee to jet black. Each work of art begins in my mind’s eye as geometrical shapes, shifting and aligning themselves. Circular forms stretch and curve, bending together and apart, creating the voids, or negative spaces, and the curvilinear forms I see in Nature.
I start with large, flat pieces of metal and transform the stubborn metal into flowing curves and sweeping silhouettes, mimicking the natural geometries around me, playing with universal shapes and primordial materials. Different textures layer my work: velvet finishes contrast with mirror reflections and swirling surfaces, rough bronzes lay next to clean clear stainless steel.
My work illustrates the circular qualities of life, the magical transformative powers of water and the need to capture each moment until it fades away.
All elements in my sculptural works are touchable, safe for children and made of durable materials, using recycled materials whenever possible. The public enjoys my work on so many levels – art and esthetics, engineering and inventiveness, nature and artificial constructs. Each sculptural evolves as I walk around it. Light dances off edges and is sucked up by dark patinas. In the graceful, organic forms of my art there is a faint echo of the flight of dry leaves in the wind, the dim memory of a raindrop’s shape. And yet, executed in metals, my art pieces counterbalance the impermanence of nature’s creations.
FROM ULRICH PAKKER
Cycles, circles, rejuvenation and re-use have always been part of my sculptural work. Every site I have worked with has circularities, perhaps natural or architectural or industrial. I work to highlight the site’s characteristics with my sculpture, bringing together the site and the art to create a different constellation. In my water features especially, circularities constitute the over-arching concept and inspiration.
Esthetically, the universal form of the circle unifies my work and the site which surrounds it, drawing the viewer into the curvalinear movement of spinning wheels and cyclonic water swirls. The metal circles “dissolve” into water flows or glassflows, depending on what feels appropriate to the site. In my water features, the surge of water completes the circles and evokes an alchemy as stainless steel transforms into liquid and back into metal. Once the water of my fountains drains down into the (hidden) reservoir, the water is then recycled to reappear again at the top of the cycle, to fall again through the wheels within wheels, circles within circles. With the Glassflow series, the “flow” is arrested in its movement, creating a striking tableau for the viewer.
I was 14 when I began my apprenticeship in Germany as a sheet metal worker learning skills that would allow me to create the complex geometries of my art.
I am a self-taught artist.
During the 1980’s I discovered stainless steel, now the primary medium for my artwork although I also create works in titanium, bronze, silver and gold. Patinas allow me to add startling colors to my work from turquoise to coffee to jet black. Each work of art begins in my mind’s eye as geometrical shapes, shifting and aligning themselves. Circular forms stretch and curve, bending together and apart, creating the voids, or negative spaces, and the curvilinear forms I see in Nature.
I start with large, flat pieces of metal and transform the stubborn metal into flowing curves and sweeping silhouettes, mimicking the natural geometries around me, playing with universal shapes and primordial materials. Different textures layer my work: velvet finishes contrast with mirror reflections and swirling surfaces, rough bronzes lay next to clean clear stainless steel.
My work illustrates the circular qualities of life, the magical transformative powers of water and the need to capture each moment until it fades away.
All elements in my sculptural works are touchable, safe for children and made of durable materials, using recycled materials whenever possible. The public enjoys my work on so many levels – art and esthetics, engineering and inventiveness, nature and artificial constructs. Each sculptural evolves as I walk around it. Light dances off edges and is sucked up by dark patinas. In the graceful, organic forms of my art there is a faint echo of the flight of dry leaves in the wind, the dim memory of a raindrop’s shape. And yet, executed in metals, my art pieces counterbalance the impermanence of nature’s creations.