Seliger Reiner
1943, Deutschland
Bildhauer, Dozent
«...Die hohlen Raumarchitekturen aus unterschiedlichsten Gesteinen, meist aber aus braun-roten Backsteinen gefügt, wuchern wie von Insekten geformte Behausungen aus dem Boden...»
By perfect linking and stacking of red brick without mortar he creates a statically stable order. From a small foot, the swelling layers from a smooth, regular curve and merge joint by joint into a vault. The organic, swelling and fading basic structures are characteristic of all of Seliger’s constructions and sculptures, most of which are realized in sensually red baked tiles. The forms merge into geometrical shapes (globe, oval, cone), avoiding the right angle by any means, as opposed to Heerich and Kirkeby.
Seliger’s constructions lack doors and windows, they remain pure, nonsensical shells without pedestals, seemingly grown out of the ground like prototypical matter, archetypical prehistoric monuments, mysterious chambers of roaming nomads.
Dr. Gottlieb Leinz, Curator Lehmbruckmuseum, Duisburg, Germany
