"Rest" by Birgit Knappe

by Birgit Knappe

The stone spoke to me spontaneously in the quarry when I was looking for the one among hundreds of others in mud and sleet more than half a year ago. Slight uncertainty when we meet again in August – would we still have something to say to each other?
Fallen from the sky, then at work – a stranger. Carefully circling, taking measurements, "tapping" the idea you brought with you. Is he still talking to me?

And the environment, the landscape - important, his future home - how does it feel, now in summer, how does it smell, how do light and shadow work with the colors and the texture of the surface, with the form?
First interventions - chiseled surfaces, the first cut - phases of getting to know each other, of close cooperation, of confrontation, finally of the solution: divided and reassembled, inside out, at peace again, I leave him to the landscape and know that he has a good place.

Birgit Knappe

www.knappe-kunst.de

Born in Bad Oldesloe in Schleswig-Holstein in 1955, studied at the UdK Berlin with Fred Thieler, Wolfgang Petrick and Michael Schoenholtz from 1976 to 1982, graduating as a master student (sculpting).
Since 1983 living in Berlin as a freelancer. From 1989 participation in numerous international sculpture symposiums.
From 1988 to 1993 lecturer in sculpture at the Udk Berlin, from 1994 to 1997 as a visiting professor there. Scholarships from the Karl Hofer Society Berlin (1986-88), Berlin Academy of Arts (Villa Serpentara, 1993), Schleswig-Holstein Ministry of Culture (Künstlerhaus Selk 1993, Ekely-Norway 1994), Tel Aviv Artists Studios 1997, Foundation Culture Fund (Künstlerhaus Lukas 2001).
Exhibitions and participation in exhibitions in New York, Tokyo, Kassel, Gifhorn, Oslo, Kiel, Lübeck, Berlin, among others.