Road Runner. 2006.
Sculpture. Aluminum, lacquered in red.
256 x 244 x 46 cm (100.7 x 96 x 18.1 in). [AW].


• Expressive combination of radiant colors and dynamic design.
• The artist experiments with a wide variety of materials: wood, marble, iron, steel, aluminum, plastic and ceramics.
• Rotraut Klein-Moquay is the sister of Günther Uecker and the widow of Yves Klein.
• The artist has had numerous exhibitions at, among others, the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, the Galerie Amstel, Amsterdam, and the New Vision Centre Gallery, London.

PROVENANCE: Galerie Gmurzynska, Zug.
Corporate Collection Ahlers AG, Herford (acquired from the above in 2007).

"Basically, they [her large metal sculptures] are rooted in the technique that I discovered for myself back in the Rhineland. Only now I take liquid plaster and use it to draw shapes that are about the size of a sheet of paper. The shapes that turned out well were initially templates for small wooden sculptures. But then I wanted to see what they looked like in large size. I knew someone who worked with metal and he recreated them for me out of aluminum. Now we do it ourselves, in my workshop in Phoenix."
Rotraut Klein-Moquay, quoted from: Zeit Magazin, no. 1, January 3, 2017