This is my latest ceramic sculpture 2025: TABLE OF THE SORCERER
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It is more than 40 years ago when I started my studies at the Academie of Fine Arts in Stuttgart. The study course was called free and functional ceramics. I dedicated my time to sculptures and installations, running through many different periods of trial and error, still remaining a tireless dicoverer.
There is hardly any technique, I skipped. Being into this field of art, means exploring an expanding universe and sometimes being overwhelmed by overflowing inspirations.
The title of one of my latest sculptures („Piece of a planet“ – Gayas walking Pond) hits the essence of how I look upon my artistc works. Finally they are all fragments of our planet and bodies of a universe, that came into existence through my hands. The term „overflowing“ has literally become a guideline in my artistic ceramic work since 2022.
Water, being the element which I feel very much drawn to, might have inspired me to create surfaces by using glass, not glaze, running down after reaching its fusing temperature.
Therefore, since 2022, I am experimenting in this field, observing the results and navigating myself through the innumerable decisions, I could make.
If you look into the history of my work, you will notice a specific basic shape in many of my architectural sculptures. This basic form has its own history. Based on a groundplan, made up of a stretched rectangle with two apsides, the arising shape is symmetrical and horizontal. This type of body mediates resistance and solidity. It is unshakeable and reliable. There is also a silence to it. It seems to absorb noise or even repel it:
(„Melancholia“, „Dark Matters“, „Archive of Frozen Tears“, „Iceage Depot“, . . . )
Some of my sculptures are purely conceptual, some are tuned by a certain poetic input. These two working periods alternate.
If you want more, there is a very long slide show on youtube,
featuring the evolution of my architectural ceramic sculptures
from the beginning until 2023, when I turned 60 .
Sibylle Ritter Ceramic Art 1988-2023
https://youtu.be/VLr7C7RWkk8