Gudrun Fischer-Bomert (DE)
German artist Gudrun Fischer-Bomert manufactures very distinctive artworks. She cuts and re-works large amounts of colorful plastic straws, transforming them into sculptures. They can sit on a pedestal or be hung on the wall, have abstract shapes or resemble everyday objects or symbolic forms. All together, they astonish the viewer with the imaginative reworking of such ordinary items.
Fischer-Bomert gets her inspiration for the reinterpretation of waste or dispensable objects from the contemporary environmental question. Her concern relates to the impact of plastic on earth, and especially on the underwater world, and the ways artists can reflect on human ecological footprint and responsibilities. Her sculptures suggest a different perspective: they look for beauty and try to create it from scrap materials, striving at once for an artistic outcome and deep conjectures.
Gudrun Fischer-Bomert (DE)
The piles of plastic straws composing Fischer-Bomert’s sculptures can be of different colors. They can be all black or all transparent, although often orange, yellow or green straw stand out as bright dots in the composition. The squared, rectangular or more complex structures sit often in front of a luminous source: the blueish or phosphorescent led-light invades the plastic layout and creates outstanding effects, transforming the sculptures into mysterious and fascinating artefacts.
