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Relevant Artist Research – Martin Pfeifle
Pfeifle is another artist who inspired me to pursue Installation art. With Pfeifle’s work, I tend to enjoy the structure, design and layout of the piece, this being what I engage with from his work. The simplicity of the piece, the semi-organised, semi-random layout of the work is what draws me in. Within my work, I try to recreate this kind of half planned rule of how the piece will be made/laid out, which I see in Pfeifle’s work. I always start with a plan of what I’ll use and the space it’ll occupy, but I’ll let the piece define itself and tell me where it needs to go.
Artist Influence – Martin Pfeifle
Martin Pfeifle has been a favourite artist of mine for a few years now, with all of his installation works and sculptures inspiring me to create the work that I do. Most of Pfeifle’s work takes up the majority of the room, mainly because it installation, and this inspires me to create my own installations of a similar impact.
I don’t have a favourite piece of Pfeifle’s work, as I enjoy many of his pieces. If I was choose one, I would choose his most recent `rev’. This installation is constantly in the state of movement, and when the viewer walks around the space it creates more movement within the installation.
I use Pfeifle as inspiration all the time when making an installation, but I can never get the same impact or interactivity as he does. It is my ambition to create a piece of work that has a similar impact to how Pfeifle’s work does.
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Martin Pfeifle – The Artist Who Inspires Me
Martin Pfeifle is a German Artist who over the past decade has appeared in dozens of exhibitions with a variety of Sculptural Installations. Pfeifle started his professional practice in 2000, even though he only graduated with his degree in 2004. I first discovered Martin Pfeifle while working on my A Levels; it was during the Personal Study unit, which meant that I could create my own theme to follow, allowing me to explore anything I desired (within reason).
Martin Pfeifle inspires me because I am greatly interested in Installation, and Pfeifle shows how you can explore the environment using installation and how you don’t particularly need the environment to create a solid sculptural installation. I’m using ‘particularly’ because the majority of Pfeifle’s work uses its environment, but if you were to have it in a wide open area, he could construct a piece that is completely different and stands out above the rest. I guess, in a way, this is how he inspires me; when Pfeifle creates his art, he leaves room for the viewer to think of their own definition of the piece.
To be completely honest, I just can’t choose which of Pfeifle’s works I adore the most; there are some which don’t grab my attention, but the number of works that do… If, and only if I had to choose one, I would choose the one I found first, Ichoderdu ROTEMARTHA; mainly because I was amazed by the scale of the work. Ichoderdu ROTEMARTHA, in my opinion, shows that there is always a heart within a structure that may show no life or feeling, that there is always one section open to let those in who are worthy of entrance. I may be babbling here but with this piece being the first I saw of Pfeifle’s, I just love it, how it wraps and hides and covers an area, making the viewer curious of what’s on the other side.
I can’t say I know what each of Pfeifle’s works is about or where it comes from as his website doesn’t contain this information, but I assume that his work is based on his thoughts and his research into the topic. That aside, his work influenced mine by expanding my knowledge and understanding of a special awareness and how art fits into its environment. I definitely look more closely now at how I present my work and how it interacts not only with the environment, but with the viewer as well.
There is not much to say about how Pfeifle uses his materials; simply because he uses them to only to underline their everyday uses, nothing more and nothing less; the simple approach. To me his work does make me feel warm inside; knowing that there is someone else with similar interests in sculptural installation as I do.
In Conclusion, Martin Pfeifle is an amazing artist who I will look up to and gather inspiration from.
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