At the end of August last year when Doro Brübach contacted me about the possibility of support for her thesis on “Free Art” at the Muthesisus College of Art in Kiel, I had at first only a vague idea of what was going to develop from it.
She writes in her explanations about “Idea and Intention”:
“In my artistic work, ceramics, especially even stoneware, is the material I use most often. With regard to the technical challenges of this material I test its limits in the form of installations, performances or sculptures.”
In her work she even started one stage earlier – in her extensive preliminary investigations she first tested various combinations of stoneware-bodies and chamotte grain sizes in order subsequently to prepare exactly the material whose properties and characteristics seemed suitable for the implementation of her ideas.
Thus the material is essential for her artistic approach to this work – its properties define the entire working process, and above all the final performance. Therefore, it is not really surprising that Doro Brübach deals intensively with the term “material in art” in her theoretical thesis.
Here she examines philosophical and art-theory thoughts on the concept of material and describes references to art history.