Sculptural Contribution

Marion Abate
Sculptural Contribution

As a sculptor, I work at the interface of analog modeling and digital 3D printing. For the project 'Beethoven Art Tour – 1796 | 2026', I want to translate Beethoven's thinking, his inner tensions, and his radical contemporaneity into sculptural forms.

The starting point is questions to Beethoven that are not illustrated but formally interpreted: Rhythm becomes structure, break becomes fragment, silence becomes emptiness. In a hybrid process – from analog modeled clay form through digital transformation to the 3D-printed object – contemporary sculptures emerge that make the distance between Beethoven's time and our present visible. The recognizable print layers are deliberately understood as 'traces of time'.

The works are designed as mobile objects and are suitable for both exhibitions and the live tour. They function as spatial thought models and visual anchor points in the interplay of music, text, AI, and performance.