Wolkenpumpe — after Hans Arp
This work is a contemporary sculptural reflection on Hans Arp’s poetic idea of the Wolkenpumpe (“Cloud Pump”) — a vision in which organic movement, transformation, and lightness overcome rigid structure and functional logic.
Using industrial canal pipes combined with raw, reflective wire mesh, the installation creates a tension between technical infrastructure and fragile atmospheric presence. The rigid pipe appears to generate, release, or dissolve cloud-like formations into the surrounding space, transforming a functional object into a poetic organism.
The untreated reflective wire reacts continuously to light and movement, causing the sculpture to appear unstable, fluid, and almost immaterial despite the industrial character of its materials. Through this contrast, the work explores the relationship between industry and nature, heaviness and levitation, permanence and dissolution.
Rather than representing clouds literally, the installation investigates the emotional and spatial condition of transformation itself — suggesting that even within technical systems, poetry, vulnerability, and imagination can emerge.
