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Alejandra Ruddoff (born 1960 in Santiago de Chile) is a Chilean sculptress.
Biography
Ruddoff studied sculpture at the University of Chile and graduated in 1985. In 1993 - having received a scholarship from DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) - she acquired a post-graduate diploma of the Munich Academy of Fine Arts. She was awarded the First Prize of the Chilean Ministry of Public Works in 2000. In addition, her work Homage to the Wind - which according to the writer Raúl Zurita has the germinating ease of a poem and at the same time the purity of most ancient monuments - was erected at the Panamericana. Special exhibitions of her three-dimensional works were staged at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Santiago de Chile and in the Tai Miao Temple in the Forbidden City of Beijing in 2003. Ruddoff has been teaching at arts academies since 2000.
The artist has developed large-format projects meant to be shown in public places. One of those is the construction Peace, Friendship and Time's Space (2001) which was modelled during the Fifth International Sculptors' Symposium held in Changchun and erected in its local sculpture park. Another of her sculptures Forward (1997) was unveiled in Potsdam in 2002. While staying at the Potsdam Volkswagen Design Center in 2006 she worked on variations of the objects. In 2010 the DAAD commissioned her to sculpt Forward II which is now displayed in front of the DAAD headquarters at Bonn. She has been living as a freelance artist in Berlin since 2009.
Work
Alejandra Ruddoff is first of all interested in the interconnections between time, space and matter and the laws of motion. Her works are inspired by nature's sources of energy and the motive power of the mechanized world. Characteristic of her oeuvre is an aesthetic, abstract yet sensual pictorial expression which combines natural and mechanical forms.
Gallery
2000 Hommage an den Wind,9 x 2,5 x 118 m, Rostfreier Stahl, Panamericana Sur km 82.280 Chile
2001 Konstellation in grau, 190 x 410 x 190 cm, Bemaltes Eisen
2001 Plicatura II Alerce, 184 x 71 x 67 cm, Sammlung Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
2003 Ursprüngliche Inschrift, 246 x 230 x 30 cm, Finger-Kiefer
2006 Das Gleichgewicht, 55 x 53 x 37 cm, Bronze
2009 Transkription einer Leere, 210 x 210 x 13 cm, Alerce und laurel, Sammlung Sparkasse Wuppertal
2010 Nach Vorn II, 360 x 240 x 240 cm, Aluminium, DAAD-Hauptgebäude in Bonn
2000 Hommage an den Wind,9 x 2,5 x 118 m, Rostfreier Stahl, Panamericana Sur km 82.280 Chile
2001 Konstellation in grau, 190 x 410 x 190 cm, Bemaltes Eisen
2001 Plicatura II Alerce, 184 x 71 x 67 cm, Sammlung Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
2003 Ursprüngliche Inschrift, 246 x 230 x 30 cm, Finger-Kiefer
2006 Das Gleichgewicht, 55 x 53 x 37 cm, Bronze
2009 Transkription einer Leere, 210 x 210 x 13 cm, Alerce und laurel, Sammlung Sparkasse Wuppertal
2010 Nach Vorn II, 360 x 240 x 240 cm, Aluminium, DAAD-Hauptgebäude in Bonn
2011 Verbindung IV, 19 x 19 cm, Zinkstich
2012 Stille in Bewegung, 50 x 50 cm, Bleistift
2012 Orbital, 50 x 50 cm, Digital Print
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Germany
China