* The Four Seasons in Sixteen Stone Worth of Silver *
At Brandenburg, top of "Autumn" 2002, silver (925), total height 160 cm.
| At Brandenburg instantaneously plumped for autumn. He is a bit of an odd man out in the world of silver, in that he has a long-standing tradition of creating unusual sculptures in which different materials play an independent role - a chunk of black marble, for example, or the rusty components of an indeterminate piece of machinery. If there is anyone who has resolutely cast aside the codes of the genre, it's Brandenburg - and just as a sculpture such as "Leak" or "All Quiet Now" is growing on you, he takes the wind out of his audience's sails with a breathtakingly expertly made coffee and tea service which in its design skims the stylistic boundaries of Art Deco, yet through features such as the unexpectedly erratic pattern of its zigzag lines firmly plonks the spectator back into the twenty-first century. His sculpture, "Autumn", is actually called "The Height of Autumn". The tiny room on its four stilts contains a silver bedstead with a silver eiderdown, one corner of which has been turned down. A minuscule acorn lies on the floor, as the kind of surprise any male would be over the moon to stumble upon in the autumn of his life … |
At Brandenburg, "Coffee & Tea" 2001, silver (925) and ebony
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