Anke Eilergerhard, artist based in Berlin (Germany), is acclaimed
internationally for his distinct artistic position in the field of sculpture
contemporary. She has been exploring the theme of the cake as a metaphor for over three decades
of beauty, desire, time, balance and deception, creating a unique work and
highly recognizable.
Since 2004, she has focused on the whipped cream swirl, which transforms from
a 16th-century Western courtly technique of decorating cakes on a symbol
artistic.

Your material of choice is highly pigmented polyorganosiloxane (silicone), which
It applies using a technique
From confectionery to creating countless whipped cream swirls — a method that she
has improved since 2004.
Eilergerhard’s sculptures deftly navigate the terrain between form
concrete sculptural, abstraction and
figuration. They are marked by a unique aesthetic tension – simultaneously
sumptuous and restrained — a style that the artist herself describes as “purist baroque”
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These works seduce with their apparent sweetness and fragility, at the same time that
reveal a conceptual and formal complexity that invites further reflection
deep.
A notable example of his artistic practice is the cycle of works “ANNAS” (2011—2023), in
Which one matches your
iconic silicone cream swirls with fine European porcelain. Sculptures
with names like “ANNALOTTA”
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“ANNADONNA” and “ANNAKATHARINA” evoke images
of gigantic cake decorations, while critically approaching
themes such as femininity, excess and cultural stereotypes. The use of porcelain proves
-nothing about historic German and Czech factories gives the works historical depth
and connects them to the rich tradition of European porcelain

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