OBJECTS IN STEEL

Käller lives and works in Makkum, Friesland. Life there is characterized by living with water. For Käller, this continually inspires new forms in various materials. His gaze is focused on the maritime world that surrounds him.

“After high tide, the tide line is again richly filled. All washed up from mysteriously dark, deep water, alongside signs of life on the other side. Kelp and jellyfish floated through the water, an empty bottle rolled to and from the shore. Scattered lay pieces of wreckage etched by salt and time, blunt cut glass, rust iron too. Colorful ropes, ghost nets and work gloves bear witness to fishing, a “My Little Pony” tells of lost cargo. Waterbirds tripping through the water to fish or screeching attacks from the high dune. Crabs run for their lives. Shrimps, almost invisibly crawling along the bottom, are picked up and swallowed”.

 The artist observes it all eagerly and depicts his impressions in refined steel sculptures. Käller captures brief moments and the fragile elements of water or extended periods in materials that defy time. He creates his sculptures and reliefs primarily from robust reddish-brown oxidized Corten Steen or roughly ground stainless steel. Each piece is a monument of fragile life, meticulously carved and forged with fire.

Collections: The province of Friesland, institutions and many private and corporate collections

Photo: Kees Stuip