Bettina Buck – Finding Form (Hardback)

The sculptor Bettina Buck (1974-2017) called attention to herself with her “performative sculptures”, which she often presented vis-à-vis museal objects. Buck’s preferred materials came from the hardware store: corrugated cardboard, ceramic tiles, pressed foam, or plastic foil, which are all not meant to last. Out of these materials she created a kind of changeable and transient “protagonists”, who didn’t have a final form but rather emphasized the actual process of finding form (as well as losing form). Buck herself said that her works were meant to “simultaneously attract and alienate the viewer”. In the exhibition space the objects should “create a tremor, a vibration and a conversation with its surroundings”. Finding Form presents Bucks complete sculptural works.