Angelika Loderer »Snowball« (Edition)

Snowball (Edition), 2018

For her new series of work, consisting of 10 pieces, Angelika Loderer forms snowballs from fallen snow in order to cast them in brass. In the process the ephemeral material melts, changing its aggregate condition, this way becoming a lost form. The very moment of imminent disappearance of the snowball is transformed into a durable solid state. As the process cannot be repeated a second time, a series of ten unique materializations of snowballs in the moment of their disappearance has emerged.

Angelika Loderer

Angelika Loderer’s work can be described as media-reflective, as it is the properties and manufacturing process of her chosen materials that determine their creation. An unbiased and experimental approach to dealing with materials have become typical of her way of working: Unusual combinations of materials evoke alluring objects that may occasionally remind of “performative sculptures”. Her works deal with the tension between the fleeting moment and the permanent on the other side, as well as with the ambivalence of value, transcience, and meaning, demonstrated in the way the artist attributes new value to mundane forms through the use of precious materials, for example.

Read our story with Angelika Loderer in her studio.