About Arne Petersen
Biography
Born 1973, grew up in a family of artists on Pellworm, an island in the Wadden Sea,
a UNESCO World Heritage site along the North Sea coast of Germany.
After training in therapeutics and pedagogical studies, completion of training as a professional ceramicist in Berlin in 2007.
Starting 2008 as a freelance artist in Berlin and on the island of Pellworm.
Since 2014 residence and studio on Pellworm.
Participation in group exhibitions in museums in Germany and abroad since 2010.
Publications: Profile in the european ceramics magazine New Ceramics, issue july / august 2012.
Public Collections: Museum of Ceramic Art, Ascoli Piceno, Italy.
Statement
Dialectics of transformation - where do we come from, where are we going?
The human being in relation to nature and technology in the field of tension of becoming is thematically an essential feature of my terracotta sculptures. I am interested in the point where the opposites cancel each other out, but nevertheless combine these polar potentials and thus contain an ambivalent structure. The question of space and time, whether it is organic or technical, human or machine, remains open.
In the artistic process I formed and arched directly out of a whole block of clay. Mass is replaced by space, whereby the spiral-shaped space structure brings dynamic strength and stability with it. In the energetic process of the smoke firing, the terracotta sculpture undergoes a further transformation.
