Munich: Artist Isabel Ritter creates fruit from bronze - delicious!
Created: 08/09/2022 11:27 am
By: Katja Kraft
Attention, don't slip!
The banana peel looks lifelike, but it wasn't made by Mother Nature, but made of bronze by Isabel Ritter.
© Isabel Ritter
This art is delicious!
The Munich sculptor Isabel Ritter creates fruit for eternity.
Her bananas, oranges, lemons and apples look lifelike - but are massive sculptures.
A visit to Ritter in Munich's creative district.
Bad grades in religion class were to blame.
Isabel Ritter screwed up her Abitur exam.
So nothing came of studying architecture.
God had other plans for her.
How fortunate.
Instead of planning buildings that people can live in, today Ritter creates art that people can feel.
It's tangy like oranges, sweet like bananas, fun like lemons.
And at the same time it is as heavy as melons.
Because what looks so lifelike was actually not cast in bronze by Mother Nature, but by Isabel Ritter.
With this, the Munich sculptress has already impressed at the Munich Art MUC this year.
"After casting, the fruits look very wild, I sandblast them, weld them until they take on the right shape - and then start with the colored design," says the artist.
She paints the metal with fine acrylic paint.
Place a brown spot here, a green area there.
Makes one banana peel more ripe while the other looks younger.
And elevates the pure shell, which otherwise ends up in organic waste, to art.
Colorful fruit salad: Isabel Ritter has already made lemons, oranges, apples and bananas out of bronze.
© Astrid Schmidhuber
This is definitely a socially critical element in her work, which at first glance seems so light-footed.
By receiving potential compost in bronze for eternity, the master student of the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg shows how precious it is what we otherwise carelessly throw away.
“Nature creates an ingenious packaging for all the fruits that she gives us.
That's why I always have to shake my head when I see that peeled fruit is sold in plastic in the supermarket."
Everything from a single source: mold for the banana.
© Astrid Schmidhuber
Since graduating from the academy in 2010, Isabel Ritter, who found her studio in Munich's creative district, has been dealing with nature and individual beauty.
Questions how we deal with what keeps us alive.
By reproducing unusually grown vegetables that any discounter would immediately sort out;
or creates human bodies in all their facets out of wood.
Cut from a block with a chainsaw.
And then finely reworked.
Again, sculptures are created that on the one hand appear massive and resistant to all destruction, on the other hand gentle and vulnerable.
Sour makes fun: lemon peel sculpture by Isabel Ritter.
© Astrid Schmidhuber
It's a game that Ritter clearly enjoys.
For example, when she hands you the grass-green apple that lies on her workbench.
At one point someone bit into it.
think.
It's only when you hold the fruit in your hand that you realize: This is also a bronze, faithfully imitating a real fruit from paradise.
The joke does not only come from the tooth marks in the pulp, the joke lies in the irritation of the material.
What looks like a few grams of apple weighs as much as a liter of apple cider.
And makes you just as happy.
A long-time collector wanted Isabel Ritter's apple version.
She made an edition and sent three copies to him, a policeman from Hamburg.
And was very happy to hear that the client's son didn't understand why fruit had to be sent from Munich.
In these times.
unheard of.
Ever heard of sustainability?
Yes, heard and seen.
At Isabel Ritter: art that resonates.
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Isabel Ritter has her studio in Munich's creative district. Can be reached by phone on 0176 94 61 01 74 or online here
