Gold -colored bronze sculpture "In the thoughts of you" by Valerie Otte

In rare cases, Valerie Ottes bronze figures actually present portraits, but sensitive character studies. They do not offer the viewer a pose, but the view of people who involuntarily attribute an emotional inner life.

Otte's figures rest completely, so that the viewer believes that an intimate moment believes. Nevertheless, they are "in the world" what becomes clear in their work "in their thoughts": The young woman is sitting in a chair - perhaps in the quiet apartment, perhaps in a busy café - and looks at her cell phone. It may be that she is still hesitating to call a love, missing person, it may be, she looks at a photo of her. Without a doubt, however, your thoughts are connected to the outside world. Valerie Otte gives the viewer a deep insight into the thoughts of her protagonist.

Valerie Otte
insight into the human soul

You can describe Ottes Art - as is often the case in the figurative sculpture - as a game at a distance. The game condition: exact observation. Once on the part of the artist. In her work, she implements everything that she saw in the world as a quiet emotional stimulation, as a small gesture or as a moment of truthfulness and there is her works on the way. The viewer, on the other hand, "reads" these traces cast in bronze and soon sees no mere sculptures, but personalities. It is a game that trains - not only for art, but also for the world.

Valerie Otte (*1977) studied sculpture and art history in London and Berlin. Afterwards, she all made a diploma in product design in Potsdam - this in total describes the approach and the versatility of her work.