Articles liés à Stephan Balkenhol

Stephan Balkenhol - Couverture rigide

Coen, Vittoria; Mertens, Martin

 
9788877571007: Stephan Balkenhol
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 8877571004 ISBN 13 : 9788877571007
Editeur : Hopefulmonster Editore Srl, 1999

Synopsis

Stephan Balkenhol creates wooden sculptures of female, male and animal figures, interpreting man's dominant position in the universe. His images combine everyday immediacy with a rationality typical of the minimalist tradition. The ingenuity of his work lies in his multifaceted approach and his ability to combine many different contemporary art trends. This seam of ideas and techniques is in evidence in this volume.

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Quatrième de couverture

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.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Monographie.

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Éditeur
Hopefulmonster Editore Srl
Date d'édition
1999
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
8877571004
ISBN 13 
9788877571007
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
128
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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