A must-have jewelry metal, silver offers Martin Spreng a space of immense freedom in terms of creativity and crafting. He delights in juxtaposing it with gold, carving it in extreme detail, playing it off of colorful gems or seamlessly mingling it with other materials for marquetry-like aspects. Although not intentionally figurative, Martin Spreng’s silver creations conjure up images of telluric activity, shifting and merging matters into seemingly random formations of exceptional rocks, contrasting elements, floes of fire and ice – simultaneously minute and monumental.