© NELE STROEBEL

"Schnittmuster" – Sculpture and Installation by Nele Stroebel and Wolfgang Temme

Explanations about the objects

Inspired by a visit to the Suzhou "Master of nets" garden in front of the gates of Shanghai, I have created eleven large metal nets and five spaces in the KVD rooms. These are complemented by seven small models on the wall. I developed the geometry of the disks in 2005. The thin aluminum has been opened using a laser cutter. The outline of the various lattice structures corresponds to a pattern 99 cm in diameter. Opening into conic and hemispheric forms, they illustrate an idea: the image of volume without mass and complexity based on simple construction plans. Their radially formed structures extend up to 140 cm. The net bodies float, lay, lean and turn in the rooms and become one with the works of Wolfgang Temme to create a living ambience. Some are painted with phosphorescent colors, some have been left in their natural material grey.

1. Visitors are welcomed to the exhibition by reclining and floating spatial nets of the five-piece Gruppe I. 2006. Some of these are neon yellow. The room achses correspond as though trying to come together.
2. Another Netzstruktur (2005) with a hemispheric form is mounted on the wall. Its inner surface is printed with a cellular motive; on the outside it has phosphorescent-colored dots.
3. In the corridor to the second exhibition room, five identical metal plates with round holes are leaning against the wall (sleeper 2006 (200 x 90 cm). 180° rotations of the plates reveal small symmetrical deviations in the drilling pattern. Spatial patterns of shadows develop from these superimpositions.
4. On the other side of the wall, Tube Racks 2005 (26 cm diameter) are mounted. These are models for objects on each of which 14 small room nets are placed in both directions. Some of the bases are separated and form pairs. They are supplemented by five individual lattices, each 22 centimeters in diameter.
5. The second room contains the 3er Gruppe II. 2006. Reclining room nets, some painted.
6. The Wangshi Group 2006 consists of a standing, turning and a hanging room net. Both are painted in neon yellow. Their vertical room axes correspond with each other in one rotational moment as though are trying to become one.