Stephan Balkenhol - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 2906571652 ISBN 13 : 9782906571655

Editeur : Dis Voir, 2000

Synopsis

The artist Stephan Balkenhol has been producing polychromatic wood sculptures since 1980s, large-scale figures imbued with the artist's deadpan humor. His work renews questions about figuration and the representation of the human body in contemporary society. This thoughtful entry in the Plastic Arts Collection from Editions Dis Voir provides an examination of Balkenhol's work, his offbeat sensibility and the haunting vacancies of his sculptures.

A propos du livre

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Ordinary people, ordinary clothes, ordinary appearance, ordinary posture. No exceptional events, no special facial expressions, gestures, or poses... What is the particularity of Balkenhol's statues? Stephan Balkenhol, a German artist born in 1957, has been producing polychrome wooden sculptures since the 1980s - human or animal figures, sometimes hybrid, men and women of today in simple poses, standing statues or portrait busts. His choice of figurative work and his subjects and materials have given Balkenhol a place apart in the current art scene. By choosing to carve wood like an artisan and to bring forth realistic-looking figures, Balkenhol breaks with a certain tradition of abstract and minimal contemporary sculpture, exploring the possibilities of figuration and of representation of the human body. He also questions the relations between painting and sculpture, between sculpture and architecture. How can simple wooden figures, "transparent like images", succeed in responding to contemporary problematics ? This is what the four essays presented here attempt to define.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Dis Voir
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 2906571652
• ISBN 13: 9782906571655
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 121
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible