My artwork is full of diversity ! Figuration stands naturally next to my non-figurative topics.
My studies in visual arts and sculpture, my teaching career with students and children so as my artist family brought me into contact with a whole range of materials and techniques and inspired me in many ways in my own art research.
Thus, I switch between 3-dim artwork (installations for in- and out-door, sculptures, light-structures and objects) and 2-dim interpretations (drawings, paintings, prints or photo collage).
I could structure my sources of inspiration as follows:
«On peut comparer le monde à un bloc de cristal aux facettes innombrables. Selon sa structure et sa position, chacun de nous voit certaines facettes. Tout ce qui peut nous passionner, c’est de découvrir un nouveau tranchant, un nouvel espace.»
Alberto Giacometti
Natural Structures
of our physical and living environment
The erosion of stone and rocks and the growing patterns of plants fascinate me a lot.
Non-figurative interpretations
Les formes simples
Dialogue with the material: non-figurative shapes born out of the working process. These reduced or stylised forms stand for ideas (growing, standing upright, flying, opening, dividing, receiving…)
Archaism and archetype
Archaism, archetype and myth : Archaic artefacts and symbolic signs (spiral), primitive architecture (dome, felted yurt, cocoon (animal homes), rural stone architecture, mythical boats..) attract me naturally as a kind of meditation spaces or shelter for my soul (Seelenbehausungen).
Portraits
Human and animal portraits
Human body
Torso, fragments, whole figures
In many life classes I learned to observe, to draw and to model the human body. In my artistic interpretations I try to evoke ideas through attitudes and mice-en-scenes. My themes turn around torsi, fragments and whole figures: the moving body of dancers and acrobats or the broken half-torso of the „Black warrior“(fragment)
Tales and legends
Narrative human and animal figures and illustrations from legends and children’s tales are mirroring my need for storytelling, symbolism and imagination
Below: „The children’s yurt“, „Icarus“ and „Little mermaid“ ( bronze bells)
Martine Grosbusch 