Ulrich Rückriem’s Anröchter Dolomit Projekt
A drawing for?
A drawing of?
Before?
After?
An explanation?
An idea?
An instruction?
Precise?
Approximate?
Careful?
Loose?
For the artist?
For us?
For sale?
A seemingly quiet drawing raises many questions. Ulrich Rückriem splits, saws and breaks stone. It is a process that defies determination through drawing—or perhaps one that is itself drawing. How can an idea be drawn for a material that ‘doesn’t want that which is wanted from it’?[1]
This short text first appeared in Artists’ Drawings Issue #1: Drawing Sculpture (2025). Copies of the magazine can be purchased here.
Notes
- ‘…the stone doesn’t want that which is wanted from it.’ Ulrich Rückriem quoted in Pier Luigi Tazzi, ‘Romancing the Stone: Ulrich Rückriem,’ Art Forum, September 1990, 146.
