Artist Statement-
The concept behind these clay sculptures is awareness for the particular animal or insect whose survival is being threatened today. The Horseshoe crab is being harvested for medicinal purposes with its blue blood selling for $15,000.00/ounce. The rhinoceros beetle, the gopher turtle, many species of starfish, and the list goes on...I like creating art with a message or some collaboration with the science world. My endangered totems can send a message of hope and help.
RESEARCH
Ursula
Commandeur
Ursula Commandeur's urge to create is based on a certain need to catch up. Only
at the age of 40 did she graduate as a certified product designer specializing
in ceramics. Since then she has been making everyday objects - bowls, bottles,
vases grown out of the need to surround oneself in everyday life with beautiful
things - as well as free works, quite enigmatic forms without any use value.
In the free works, the
game manifests itself with her own, seemingly inexhaustible seeming repertoire
of forms, which brought her within a short time international recognition and
awards.
From biscuit porcelain
and wire arise reliefs and free sculptures. Corresponding to her interest in
things constructed according to system, she adds individual, repetitive forms
that complement each other to a new volume. In black and white, bizarre objects
and fantasy turrets emerge, so idiosyncratic that they leave plenty of room for
the viewer's imagination and association space. There are many things that make
one think of rare animals of the deep sea, microorganisms from the ecology,
others again things that one believes to know from technology. However, every
object is completely fictitious; despite labels such as the heart valve, fur,
or catalyst, they are understood as attempts to give a thought the appropriate
form, to make the thinking and feeling visible and tangible.
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