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Realistic, Graceful Beauty Joseph Marr is an unorthadox Classical sculptor
Berlin, Kreuzberg an Atelier in a back courtyard
Joseph Marr focuses himself as he starts a new sculpture today... its tense and exciting
Whenever I make anything its never, "should I, should I not?" its "Yes"
Everything else doesn't matter One must come to a clear choice
but before hand one has to fight through a lot of charming ideas
that have no substance... One can not allow oneself to become comfortable at work!
Preparation with Vania a Model from Luxemburg, they try to find the best position to make
a sculpture of her
I started to have ideas for a new work about self acceptance and letting yourself be free
Vania is in good company, as the Atelier is full of beautiful, graceful, proud women
seemingly taken from Antiquity, but all are real people from today
Its like with making a painting, you can fall in love with parts of it, but other parts
are not good enough... therefore you must kill what you love to bring the whole thing together
And this is the process I am in right now...
to get rid of the ideas that are ok to find the really good ones
Joseph Marr is no traditional Sculptor He is not carving his sculptures from stone,
or pouring them in Bronze.. but he is working like the old master with his Models
He is using the technical possibilities of the twenty first century.
Making a 3D scan of them, which requires covering them in white powder
and then the Model must stand still for several hours
Rodin put so much of his personality into his sculptures When you see a hand of a Rodin, you see Rodin
I don't want that, I want you to see me in the work I want you to see her (Reality)
For my sculptures I am trying to get as close as possible to a reproduction of a photographic reality of a person
So with a 3D scanner one can get that photographic reality in 3 dimensions
So when the audience looks at the sculpture, they see reality
With this expensive process one can make quite perfect things with a lot of hard work
The negative form is made from silicon for the sugar to be poured into
A work process that takes several months, with high expenses
and highly trained professionals involved
Like most kids, Joseph Marr loved sweets The sweet craving and longing desire of gratification
Joseph, Son of an Australian Painter and who was also earlier a painter himself
came to the idea of making sculptures from sugar
Green, Yellow, Red and with Taste!
Rassberry and Waldmeister
This was no easy task, actually an incredibly difficult experience...
no one else had tried before
I have worked very hard to understand this medium, studying air temperature and moisture
to be able to control the limits of the material in order to protect it
two to three years it took for me to work out how one can actually preserve successfully
what actually should be temporary that makes me happy because its synchronicity
with my concept of trying fulfil our desires, not only *** desire but all forms of desire...
Joseph Marr made a Sculpture for the most famous Techno Club in Europe, Berghain in Berlin
Called "Together", 9 Meters of bodies intertwining to show a story
it was a real/staged situation for a night long 3D scan
The sculpture that Joseph Marr made tells a love story
a battleground of desires fighting to be in love
well look, I don't even feel like a sculptor, I am making objects with the aesthetics of a classical sculpture
Sometime Joseph Marr Exhibits his work without a protection layer, as raw sugar... so that
then the audience can touch and taste and smell what it actually is... Art that even kids like...