Franz Erhard Walther is a German artist whose work cuts across minimalist sculpture, conceptual art, abstract painting and performance. Walther uses exploration of the human form and a novel use of fabric to create conceptual ideas and introduce a radical rethinking of the relationship between sculpture and action. The blending of sculpture and performance is something that interests us as a group.

As a group we responded to the work of Walther by recreating one of his iconic images to understand how his work is formed using ourselves as a three in the space. The work draws attention to the shape and height of our bodies. We plan to recreate this image in various other environments exploring stillness for a longer duration. Our bodies bound together with the material standing in space and time. 

• Exploration of Franz Erhard Walther

• Defining environments

• Compositional Works 

Defined Environments

We defined our environments in the space, the defined shapes of our parameters allowed us to explore our bodies in relation to each other and the proxemics between us. We created boundary allowing us to create movement and shape that was restricted to our forced environment. 

The defined boundaries that we explored in the studio can be applied to other environments, scaling them up to encompass our soundings in the city and in Nature.
We are aware of shape in these environments, looking for the naturally accruing defined environments in our surroundings. We will explore the distances between the points of our parameters walking the distance of our environment. 

Compositional works

Within our work on composition, we explored how we may go about reacting to our environment through rough observation, exploration, play and task based exercises.