am Abgrund (on the brink)

In On the Brink, Andreas Rimpel explores a moment of existential uncertainty, when stability begins to falter and the human being is confronted with the limits of endurance. Suspended between support and collapse, the figure conveys both physical and emotional vulnerability.

As in much of Rimpel’s work, organic and technical elements merge. Angular, machine-like forms suggest strength and structure, yet the fragile posture of the figure reveals a deeper sense of instability. The brink becomes less a physical place than a metaphor for crisis, doubt, and turning points in human life. Through a reduced, Cubist-inflected formal language, the sculpture captures a universal experience: the search for balance at the edge of collapse.