With the Celestial Bodies series, Philippe Cramer explores the intersection of sculpture, symbolism, and material transformation. Composed of cast bronze and raw oak, these totemic works evoke archaic idols, megalithic monuments, and celestial forms, while engaging in dialogue with the language of modern sculpture. Their silent verticality recalls both ritual objects and the essential forms pursued by artists such as Constantin Brancusi, whose work sought to reveal the metaphysical essence of things through radical formal reduction.

Situated between abstraction and spirituality, Celestial Bodies inhabits an indeterminate temporality—simultaneously ancient and contemporary, terrestrial and cosmic. The title evokes both astronomical bodies and the sculptural object as a self-contained presence. Each work appears as a contemplative axis connecting earth and sky, matter and myth.

Material plays a central role in the series. Bronze, historically associated with permanence, memory, and monumentality, is paired with raw oak, whose organic texture introduces a living and terrestrial dimension. In Philippe Cramer’s practice, bronze itself becomes a field of experimentation. Rather than relying on standardized industrial alloys, each composition is developed by hand in the studio from varying proportions of copper, brass, and tin. As a result, every sculpture acquires its own chromatic identity, ranging from warm reddish tones to golden or silvery hues.