Ines Rother: Selected works, 2021-2023
I create ceramic sculptures that are touched by looks and hands, that always show new aspects, make signs, are designated, are walked around, and are looked at from far and near.
Seemingly informal drawings become, on repeated viewing, memories of familiar forms without being permanent, in constant change. My works always offer fascinating signs and images for ever-changing fantasies.
With my works, I create sculptures and surfaces for ceramic painting and drawing, like white sheets and walls. The composition is still made on leather-hard clay, with incisions and engravings. Only after bisque firing at 900° are colored areas applied in layers, partially removed again, overlaid with other colors, and fired at 1,220°. This creates free, multi-layered, irregularly colored areas and fields of different perspectives.
Unsteady small parts, contrasted with large, calm color fields, always in light-dark gradients and often in cold, warm, and complementary contrasts. Linear structures are embedded in the upheaval of the color fields and lead the viewer across three-dimensional images. I create ceramic bodies that give meaning, beauty and context to space,
space to live,
space to animate and
space to experience.
Photos by Helge Articus
Captions
- Double Cone Object, 2023, Stoneware clay, Height 80 cm
- Object Bowl, 2023, Stoneware clay, Diameter approx. 60 cm
- Open Vessel Object, 2023, Stoneware clay, Height 64 cm
- Pilar, 2023, Stoneware clay, Height 90 cm
- Murals, 2022, Stoneware clay, each length 60 cm, wide 40 cm, deep 6 cm
- Small and Large Column, 2022, Stoneware clay, Height 90 and 75 cm
