I was born in the small town of Brühl, neighboring Cologne, at the time West-Germany, in 1961.
My father was a medical doctor from the nearby city of Wuppertal. My mother came from Japan, where she was born and had grown up as the daughter of a tradesman from Hamburg, who had emigrated in the Twenties, and of his Japanese wife.
In 1962, my family moved exactly to Hamburg, where I have grown up and lived until my early youth. During the whole period in Hamburg I had many occasions for travelling, visiting Japan, the United States, Brazil and especially Italy.
Those trips, and the cosmopolitan spirit of my mother’s family, matured my desire to leave Germany for a place close to my personal artistic sensitiveness, which had developed in me since my childhood.
Therefore, once having finished school and community service, free from further obligations, in 1984 I moved to Rome registering at the University “La Sapienza” as an architecture-student.
During the first years at the university, though, I understood that my path would lead me to sculpture and I switched my efforts totally towards a thorough apprenticeship, starting from the Scuola delle Arti Ornamentali “S.Giacomo” before gaining experience and knowledge over the following years by working in numerous sculptor-ateliers and -laboratories. This way I have not only learned many aspects of both arts and crafts of sculpture, but also got familiar with the more down-to-earth aspects of the Roman population’s everyday-life, beyond the mere academic experiences usually made by the art-student from abroad. I therefore lived quite an austere and anonymous life, and in fact started to show my works not earlier than 1996.
Since then I have participated regularly in personal- and group- shows in Rome and several Italian cities, occasionally also in Germany and Austria, creating mostly abstract pieces inspired by the analogy of shape and sound, a sort of “instrumental music for the eyes” suitable for favoring free contemplative observation.
During those years roused my interest for the social aspects of artworks and for the cultural potential of the collaboration between artists beyond theoretical and ideological manifests. As a result, together with several Roman artists, in 2002 I founded the group “Unotempore” which, for some idealistic years, has dedicated itself to the devising of pilot-projects uniting artists from various disciplines in a free collaboration on a theme of public interest, studying the aesthetic aspects of art with poetic intentions for upgrading the spaces where humans are living together.
Being convinced that sculpture should be a synergic expression of inspiration and technical skill, I as well have always been trying to re-establish a true artistic sculpture-laboratory, run as a team, able to carry out by itself demanding and complex works, and so in 2005 I started to collaborate, and still continue to do so, with the back then recently established studio martescultura.
My artistic and professional activity has concentrated over the last years on the shared effort for developing the studio as well as on my personal research focused on “contemplative sculpture-spaces”.
As an artist, I am deliberately going on without any hurry but constantly, in harmony with my intentions, not being in contrast with today’s accelerated world, but as its poetic coadjutant, creating and offering artistic oases of contemplative vision.
More recently, to my activity as a sculptor I have added a growing interest in writing, publishing the novel “Le anntoazioni di Lang” (in Italian, Aracne Editrice 2015)