Bondage (rosa)

"Bondage (rosa)" of Stephan Marienfels clearly refers to the human body by its organic shape. At the same time it enhances it by its extremely smooth surface. The rough rope cuts through the shining, polished form with unmistakable presence and finality that gives to this abstract nude an interpenetrating, ambivalent eroticism. The directness of the contrast that is created by the clash of forms and surfaces that belong to the figurative element and to the chaining medium raises questions of devotion and control, perfection and breaking. At the same time, the sculptures of Stephan Marienfeld, who was born in 1966 in Hattingen (Germany), shows a masterful use of the medium light. Liberated from any level of meaning, the art work reflects the light and produces shadows that provoke meditations with fascinating respect to the subject.