Austrian-born Caroline Ramersdorfer studied philosophy in Paris and sculpture in Carrara, Italy and her sculpture is rooted in both disciplines. Commissions have come from around the globe, most recently Taiwan, Cairo, and Beijing. About eight years ago, a grant for a multimedia project led to the series Inner Views, works in marble that use light and space to create physical and spiritual interiors. Both large and small scale, her work is a study in contrasts – tense, fluid, weighty and ethereal - and speaks to the mutability of perception and experience.
Ramersdorfer carves into slabs of marble to reveal complex interior spaces crisscrossed by spindles, some as delicate as finger bones, others more substantial. Lit from within and without, the effect is of something both built and organic. In one series, groups of diamondshaped marble slabs sit solidly in metal stands, grounded with an inward energy. New works, resting on delicate metal piers or suspended from the ceiling, thrust outward, intruding into the space around them. In all her sculpture, the light plays off the marble, creating luminescent and living surfaces that dance around the focal point - the open interior. Thick and tactile carving frames the central opening, drawing the viewer inexorably in.
CAROLINE RAMERSDORFER
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