About
Thomas Kiesewetter he's known for a his practice of sculpture based on the quest for forms, first and foremost through a graphical approach. He draws, these drawings themselves being full-fledged works on paper, then he creates three-dimensional models of his sculptures, smaller and in lighter materials – paper, plastic, wood or cardboard – then the final sculpture.
Thomas Kiesewetter’s work is nurtured by his central European roots, Constructivism and Bauhaus, but also Cubism, through his studies on the abstraction of the form, use of industrial and everyday materials, and studies of colours.
His work on the integration of the sculpture and the plinth in the same ‘poor’ industrial material is a contribution to the solutions sought by modern and contemporary sculpture, a field in which the question of the plinth is always open.
His links to American sculpture are noticeable and combine in his work with the above-mentioned 20th century works, especially the cutting and soldering of metal introduced by Gonzales and Picasso; these links, completely reinterpreted by the major American sculptures are found in Kiesewetter, in addition to the use of scavenged materials and colours ranging from the Pop Art palette to the dissonant colours of present-day pictorial works. Kiesewetter absorbs and transforms them.