Roland Berger

Queen unfolds from a broad, planar base like an outspread veil. Flow lines rise across the bronze; eddies and grain look grown rather than constructed. The figure remains abstract and biomorphic—between trunk and body—yet a static kinetics emerges: the sculpture stands still while the lines lift the form, build it optically, and lead it upward. This quiet upward flow creates a surreal pull in which the figure is in continual transformation. Fine edges of light break along the patina; depending on viewing height and distance, form and volume shift. The work responds sensitively to light and surroundings: edges advance, recesses recede—as if the material were breathing.

Read as a pair, Queen is the expanding pole: it extends presence into space, while King acts as a gravitational core, concentrating forces inward. Compared with the biomorphic bronzes of Jean (Hans) Arp—often smooth and clinically pure—Berger emphasizes an organic texture; the flow remains inscribed in the surface, the movement palpable despite stillness. Thus Queen and King together span a field of expansion and centering: here upward flow and reach, there quiet gravity and gathering.