Sven Rünger

Sven Rünger is a sculptor who, without depicting reality, reinterprets many aspects of reality in his sculptures. His formal language is reduced, simple and concentrated. He is primarily concerned with forms that belong to the general understanding of the body, such as curves, bulges, dells, elevation, elongation or deepening. He carves his works from noble stone such as marble or travertine or has them cast in bronze, gives them seductively beautiful surfaces and moves them into an immaterial state. Their structure and their relationship to space, their surface reflections and their colourfulness are decisive for their radiance and perception as strong beings. As an artist, he breathes life into these stone creatures, in which ideas of the ancient past seem to combine with visions of conceivable developments.

Prof. Dr. Frank Günter Zehnder / Director International Academy of Art Heimbach

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