Hasn’t everyone at one time tried to peel a fruit, be it an apple or an orange, in one whole piece? And hasn’t the spiraled peel been used for numerous experiments thanks to its form as well as its durability and texture?
Otmar Sattel is an artist who uses everyday things, be they organic or otherwise, as his material and artistic means, combining them in dynamic compositions full of tension. In his series Broken Orange Flower, Sattel arranges an orange peel on a shard of glass and illuminates it with different color filters. The slightly hardened whole peels, their exteriors glowing red, the interior white, take on a number of playful positions.
Seen as a series one might have the impression that it was a sea breeze that constantly positioned the peels anew. Seen individually, however, it becomes clear that the artist works precisely with light, shape, and color – and particularly with the peel’s reflection on the piece of glass – so as consciously to draw the viewer’s awareness to the essential element of his art: heightened experience of the everyday.
The associations that the works call up, like the legendary water lilies of French Impressionist Claude Monet (1840–1926) for instance, make it evident that Sattel walks a line between painting and sculpture, freed of the rules and bounds of strict genre. Sattel does not view the materials he implements in his art as interchangeable vehicles of shape and color; each has its own quality and substance, which he hopes to show. The delicate and almost dance-like poses in which Sattel arranges his orange peels and captures in his photographs sharpen our understanding of creation and decay in nature and give us numerous new and exciting causes for thought.
Horst Kloever
| 1955 | born in Speyer am Rhein, Germany |
| 1974-1976 | School of Design, Mannheim, Germany |
| 1976-1982 | Education at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Stuttgart with Prof. Moritz Baumgartl, Prof. Rudolf Schoof, Graphic Design, Prof. KRH Sonderborg, Painting |
| 1981 | founded the artist group Material & Wirkung e.V. with Eberhard Bosselt, BKH Gutmann and Werner Klotz |
| since 1987 | works with organic plant and animal bodies. He studies the substances’ natural decay process in their visual traces. |
| lives in Berlin und Schifferstadt, Germany |
| 2001 | First prize, Sculpture Biennial Münsterland, Germany |
| 1999 | COLLOQUIUM EXTERNO with Werner Klotz, design of the campus of Fachhochschule für Wirtschaft, Ludwigshafen/am Rhein, Germany |
| 1998-2001 | AUGENWEIDE - Land-Art-Projekt, First prize, (with Stefan Rotzler, Landscape architect, Switzerland), 4th mis-en-scene of the 2001 federal horticultural show, Potsdam, Germany |
| 2001 | Fellow of the Landes Rheinland/Pfalz for Künstlerhaus Schloß Wiepersdorf, Brandenburg, Germany |
| 2002 | Fellow of the Stiftung KUNSTFONDS, Bonn e.V., Germany |
Solo Exhibitions (Selection)
| 2008 | REVIEW = PREVIEW, Schloß Klein-Niedesheim, Worms, Germany |
| 2007 | WALLPAPER III-IV – Energieskulpturen, GEHAG Forum, Berlin, Germany |
| 2006 | VIDEOHÖRNER, media project, Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Germany |
| 2005 | BRENNENDER PEGEL – Energieskulpturen, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, Deutschland |
| 2004 | LUX.us, video installation, Galeria AT, Poznan, Poland |
| 2003 | LUX DUKTUS, space installation, Galerie Nord, Berlin, Germany |
| 2002 | LES YEUX DES ARNIMAUX, video / sound installation, Künstlerhaus Schloß Wiepersdorf, Brandenburg, Germany |
| 2001 | LANDunterLAND – Werkstatt im Bau, Kunstverein Speyer, Germany |
| 2000 | REZEPTOREN – Ortstermin Tiergarten, Pohlstraße 11, Berlin, Germany |
| VIDEOHÖRNER, video installation, Laboratorium Joachimsthal, Germany |
| 2008 | BOTTLE-BATTLE VI, OSTRALE08, Dresden, Germany |
| 2007 | VIDEOHÖRNER, Bogota, Columbia |
| FISH `N`SHITS, 7th Baltic Biennale Szczecin, Poland, National Museum Szczecin, Germany | |
| 2006 | DAS FENSTER ZUR WELT, correctional facility JVA, Limburg/Diez, design of the visitors room, Limburg/Diez, Germany |
| DER ZUPFBERG – Energieskulptur, wahr/falsch Inc. Museums-Quartier, Vienna, Austria | |
| 2005 | CAFE EUROPA, light projection, Birthlerbehörde, Berlin, Germany |
| 2004 | POSITIONEN, Review = Preview, Theodor-Zink-Museum, Kaiserslautern, Germany |
| DIALOG LOCI, Bastion Sztuki, Kostrzyn, Poland | |
| 2003 | NUKLEUS DEUS (permanent), Umwelt-Campus FH Trier-Birkenfeld, Germany |
| 2001 | OSMOSE, Federal Ministry of Environment Berlin, Germany |
| VIDEOHÖRNER II, video installation, Internationale Kunsttage Drewen, Drewen, Germany | |
| 1999 | TUBES - Reservoir III – AQUATEKTURA, Großer Wasserspeicher, Berlin, Germany |
| 1998 | IN ERINNERUNG BLEIBT DAS BILD, Galerie FOE, Munich, Germany |
| Wahrnehmungsinstrumente – Energieskulpturen, Werner Klotz / Otmar Sattel, Galerie HO, Berlin, Germany | |
| MATERIAL & WIRKUNG, Eberhard Bosslet / Werner Klotz / Otmar Sattel, Kunsthaus Dresden, Städtische Galerie für Gegenwartskunst, Dresden, Germany | |
| ACHTUNG TIERE, HO-Galerie, Berlin, Germany |
LINKS
www.otmarsattel.com
Books/Catalogs (Selection)
Exhibition catalog „FISH `N`SHITS, transROBOTA, 7th Baltic Biennale“, Szczecin, Poland, National Museum Szczecin 2007
CD catalog „VIDEOHÖRNER - Medienprojekt“, Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Germany, 2006
Exhibition catalog „DER ZUPFBERG – wahr/falsch Inc., Energieskulptur“, Museums-Quartier, Vienna, Austria, 2006
CD catalog „BRENNENDER PEGEL – Energieskulpturen“, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany, 2005/2006
CD-Documentary „LUX.us, Videoinstallation“, Galeria AT, Poznan, Poland, 2004
Exhibition catalog „DIALOG LOCI“, Bastion Sztuki, Kostrzyn, Poland, 2003
Exhibition catalog „OSMOSE“, Federal Ministry of Environment, Berlin, Germany, 2001
Exhibition catalog „SCHUTZK.o.n.Takt“, Skulptur-Biennale Münsterland, Germany, 2001
Exhibition catalog „TUBES - Reservoir III – AQUATEKTURA“, Großer Wasserspeicher, Berlin, Germany, 1999
Exhibition catalog „PLAY FROM MEMORY II”, Galeria AT, Poznan, Poland, 1996
Exhibition catalog „PLAY FROM MEMORY III”, Galerie FOE, Munich, Germany, 1996
Exhibition catalog „BOTTLE - BATTLE III”, Das HELIX-BAU-Projekt, Kunsthaus Essen, Germany, 1995
Exhibition catalog „OTMAR SATTEL – ENERGIESKULPTUREN“, Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, Germany, 1994
Additional Information
PERMANENT WORKS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS | |
| 2006 | DAS FENSTER ZUR WELT, correctional facility JVA, Limburg/Diez, design of the visitors room, Limburg/Diez, Germany |
| 2003 | NUKLEUS DEUS, Umwelt-Campus FH Birkenfeld, Germany |
| 2001 | SCHUTZK.o.n.Takt, Skulptur Biennale Münster, Germany |
| 1999 | COLLOQUIUM EXTERNO with Werner Klotz, design of the campus of Fachhochschule für Wirtschaft, Ludwigshafen/am Rhein, Germany |
| 1998-2001 | AUGENWEIDE - Land-Art-Projekt, First prize, (with Stefan Rotzler, Landscape architect, Switzerland), 4th mis-en-scene of the 2001 federal horticultural show, Potsdam, Germany |
| TARNUNG : ENTTARNUNG, art projects of the federal horticultural show, Potsdam, Altes Rathaus Potsdam, Germany | |
| 1996 | AKKUMULATOR I, Skulpturenweg Rheinland-Pfalz, Kaiserslautern, Germany |
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