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01 oSbj Sculptor interesteo ir\ Vorms By USCHI MICHEL-HOWELL Battalion Staff What is there in a paperbag full of apples that would inspire you? Probably not much, if you are only concerned with the practical uses of the bag. All it inspires you to do is to empty its contents, crumble the bag and away with it to the trash. But some people have a different conception of things. They are inspired and fascinated by the bag itself. It could be the way the brown paper crumbles from the weight of the apples, the way it looks when you put it down on your kitchen counter, or a moment’s sight of the apples falling out. Such inspirations, added to the skilled hands of an artist, can trans form simple objects into interesting experiences. One such artist is sculptor Paul Suttmann, artist in residence at the College of Architecture and En vironmental Design at Texas A&M University. “The truth of art is to give life to something,” Suttmann said. One of Suttmann’s works in bronze is a paper bag laden with apples that are falling out. Sutt mann, 47, is an internationally- known sculptor, who has exhibited his work all over the United States and in Italy. “The artist in residence is here to inspire the college and its faculty," said Dr. Charles M. Hix, interim dean of the college. Suttmann, who worked as an architect before he started sculptur ing, gives lectures and slide shows on architecture and landscaping to the faculty. Suttmann said he enjoys teaching and changing locations. He was artist in residence at several other universities before he came to Texas A&M. “I started as an architect and de signed many race cars, chairs and other things, but then I got more interested in the forms them selves,” Suttmann said. After he received his master’s degree in fine arts at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, he began his career with human sculpturing. With the help of grants, Suttmann stayed in Rome for 15 years, re storing old houses and working with bronze. “For the last ten years I have done still-life,” he said. Suttmann has elaborated his bag with apples sculpture several times and is now working on another variation. “I started to get interested in emotionally cool things as con trasted to human sculptoring, which I did before,” he said. “There is no emotional attachment to a paper bag.” “I play with the idea of turning something fragile into something hard. And the sculpture that I make from the object is not a real paper bag. It is merely an abstract.” Suttmann’s latest sculptures de al with motion; apples falling from a bag, a tablecloth with wine bottle and fruit suspended in mid-air. “Motion is somehow stopped, it’s almost a cinematic device.” His art represents recognizable objects; in that sense it is not ab stract. But to Suttmann, all art is ab stract. “Because every person, in cluding the artist, sees an object from an individual point of view. Therefore it is an abstract of the real.” Suttmann works with different materials, but uses mostly wood and bronze, which changes a sculpture’s appearance constantly according to the light in which it is viewed. The sculptor first got interested in design when General Motors had a Sculptor Paul Suttmann displays some of his bronze apple and paper bag sculptures. Suttmann is the artist in residence at the Texas A&M University College of Architecture and Environmental Design. race-car-design contest. Suttmann said he won the contest five years in a row. Suttmann works continuously on several ideas in different stages. “I keep about 20 pieces working at the same time to prevent sculptor’s block/’ he said. 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