In thirty-five years of combining metal with glass and stone, Johannes has expanded the boundaries of
expression by fusing the strong and the fragile, the solid and the liquid, the dark and the transparent.
Working with glass he had to accept however that there are limitations in weight and size which could not be surpassed.
In a quarter of a century he then developed slowly the idea to replace glass with space. As with glass light,
clarity and purity started to emanate from his new work
In his ‘Immaterial¹ series, von Stumm has eliminated the shadows to create figures of ultimate transparency,
powerful figures which use the negative space to let light and darkness into increasingly complex and
exciting forms. These works are a logical progression in his continual wish to de-materialise the image in
space.