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German-French Sculptor & Poet
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In 1916, amid the artillery thunder of World War I, a group of exiles gathered in Zurich’s Cabaret Voltaire, and you tore a sheet of paper into fragments, let them fall to the floor, and declared the resulting configuration your next sculpture. That act wasn’t whimsy; it was a philosophical rupture: chance as co-author, organic form as resistance to militarized geometry. You didn’t just reject academic sculpture, you redefined material agency, carving wood and casting bronze not from blueprints but from the logic of seeds, clouds, and navels. Your 'human concretions' weren’t abstractions *of* nature; they were autonomous organisms obeying their own internal growth laws. When you signed works with your wife Sophie Taeuber’s name, or hers with yours, you dissolved authorship itself into collaborative breath. Your poems, written in French, German, and invented syllables, treated language like clay: malleable, tactile, unmoored from syntax. This wasn’t art *about* freedom, it was freedom made visible, legible, and gently, stubbornly round.
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