Modern geometric sculptures and bowls arise from slender paper folding.
Gerstenberger follows his inspiration that he gets from nature
and connects it with his passion for modern architecture with its
geometric basic orientation. What has been made of paper and then folded
with lightness, finds now its expression in heavy, permanent material.
His way of designing, impresses with an artful simplicity. Due
to its few lines and cuts, the emotional and expressive form becomes
convincing. The infinite geometric possibilities of folding, open new universes full of harmony and beauty.
The creative process is characterised by an urban physical confrontation
with the material and dimensions that are taken by the sculptures and
then reflected.
Black burned / Oil finish
"My friend, I
like your sculpture very much, in its surface and in its geometric and abstract
form, but also in its depth, in its substance, because it speaks of sculpture. I think of
Egyptian and Roman sarcophagi, of countless pillars that sink into the earth. And I also
think of the Greek Kouros, the archetype of the human image and the countless
statues that have been created over the centuries, always in connection with the
body, death, life.
In fact, I see
a sculpture in your work that tells about the sculpture. A sculpture that
refers to its history and its origins, the image of another image, like a
thread that leads to us from a great distance." Prof. Valentino Giampaoli