Her mind has always worked in a global, questioning way. Accordingly, her hands dig deep into the pool of material elements, searching for design, driven by a longing for manual penetration of material and possibilities.

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Since her youth, she has travelled all over the world, learning a craft from every country where she could learn something about old traditions and the processing of natural resources into works of cultural value. In Tunisia she moulded clay into goods, in Mexico it was the art of silversmithing that magically attracted her, and in the historic steel forge of Europe, in the heart of the Ruhr area, the shiny black pit gold captivated her senses.

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And here, finally, at the boiling point of a lifelong chain of knowledge of man and matter, in the perception and fathoming of natural appearance and malleable form and absolutely in the merciless face of the finiteness of global resources, her lively critical spirit merged into a touching archaic freedom of essence in her current art: coal, copper and water - black gold, blue gold and, like the constant stream of life, the heat-conducting semi-precious metal Cu, soft, malleable and tough at the same time.

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Sabine Pierick always follows her natural instinct to elicit the inherent beauty of the earth, always anew, full of energy, like an innate, insatiable desire for a sensual, creative appropriation of our world. She digs deep into the segment, crushes it with her own hands, patinates it, allows nature to re-enact it and then catapults the treasures of the earth into her own Pierick universe.

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Carbon C / atomic number 6. Substance of life.

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