Untitled 1982

This untitled sculpture by Joachim Bandau is made from simple shapes, meticulously placed, inviting a close look at how things fit together. It's got this humble palette - like rusted metal, or maybe sun-baked clay - but that's what keeps you grounded, right? It’s all about the surface here. You can almost feel the rough texture, that raw, unpolished feel which makes it so tactile. It’s balanced in a way that makes you feel like it could all topple over. You get this sense of something solid, something elemental, but also fragile. Like you could breath on it and the whole thing could come crashing down. Bandau's work reminds me a bit of some of Richard Serra’s sculptures. Both of them seem interested in weight, balance, and the drama of simple forms. It's a conversation, this art thing, stretching back, and forward, across decades.