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Beside Appearances, Among Ghosts
?Just as I sometimes dream at night, I am assailed during the day by impressions that I hasten to seize. They must be given real contours; thus I construct [?]?
? Maurice Sendak [1]
To encounter a sculpture by Thomas Kiesewetter?to confront it, to walk around it?is to see one?s imagination carried beyond the confines of the real. It is to be invited to a local fair, to a vast formal game of pursuit. One faces an object fixed in its movement, an object that exists only in and through itself: a pure play of forms and motions. A play of consciousness.
Sculpture is said to suggest movement. Kiesewetter suggests nothing. He constructs movement itself?real, living movement?and fixes it. His sculptures signify nothing; they refer to nothing beyond themselves. They are. That is all. They are absolutes [...]