ONE BY FIFTY  

 

    

TESSA KALANCHOE

                 VIOLA CORNUTA        
alle meine Kinder The Philosopher Peter Slotderdijk wrote in the book “Bubbles”:
”In His initial work step, the Creator forms Adam the clay-ling or “adama,” from soil and makes him into a piece of art, which owes its existence, like every creation, to a conjunction of artistic knowledge and resources. Craftsmanship and soil are necessary in equal parts to assemble man in the form of this first statue. During his initial handling the Creator is nothing more than a potter who is pleased to form, from suitable matter, a figure resembling himself, the bearing master.”		 Theresia Hebenstreit creates not even a single Adam. Without any detour (she doesn’t need a rib) she creates Eve, many Eves, from the original matter: clay. It’s a gender resembling her own: feminine, very feminine, with both feet on the ground, strong and joyful. For the potter, who she was from the beginning, repetition of the same or similar form is part of the craft. It is the procedure of throwing that dictates the boundaries of creative expression. The sculptures to be seen in her exhibition “One Times Fifty,” commemorating the occasion of her fiftieth birthday, still owe their creation to this old method. But, Theresia Hebenstreit’s progression over the years has been consequent, and now, contrary to her usual way of working, she on the one hand enriches her technical possibilities by utilizing a silicon mold, but on the other hand she lets this method restrict her in new ways. The diversity in the individual expressions of these fifty figures is witness to the richness of her creativity and her artistic competence, but also to the richness of mankind’s repertoire of body language.
     

50 clay bodies- 50 souls

      

 

                                  
     

made from one mould
Height 32 cm, earthenware, slip decoration

                                
From: Klaus Dettke, Fifty Women Figures, Catalog Theresia Hebenstreit, Wiesbaden, April 2000

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