Anselm Stalder’s sculptural work is closely connected to his painting in that his sculptures transpose the illusionism or fictionality of his two-dimensional, pictorial reality into object-reality. It’s by no means a matter of simply making certain image motifs or figurations more palpable in a three-dimensional form, but rather of a kind of literal projection of a mysterious image on a higher plane of reality, where the tension between projection and sculptural realization can be concretely intensified and articulated.

Stalder’s sculptures don’t primarily grow out of formal questions but out of