Important aspects of the new sculpture being produced by young German artists are on the one hand a concern with the functionalism and overrationality of the cultural environment, and on the other an interest in sculpture as composition, as an exercise within the field of art. References to familiar objects from art and from everyday life, the suggestion of a rational “will to form,” withdrawal into a fantasy unhampered by any temporal or spatial restrictions, the construction of language and the destruction of grammar—all come together here. In this context the work of the young Hamburg artist