STEFAN BALKENHOL (NÉ EN 1957)

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STEFAN BALKENHOL (NÉ EN 1957)
Mann im grünen Hemd (man in green shirt), 2012 Wawa wood and paint 170 x 24.5 x 30 cm - 67 x 9 1/2 x 12 in. STEFAN BALKENHOL Mann im grünen Hemd (man in green shirt) Stefan Balkenhol is a German sculptor born in 1957 and who belongs to a generation of German artists who have brought about a revival in figurative art. After studying at the Hamburg School of Art with Ulrich Rückriem, a master of minimalist sculpture, Balkenhol took a comple - tely different path. From the 1980s onwards, his interest was in the people of our time, whom he depicted in hieratic poses and with inexpres - sive faces. His aesthetic research is based on photographic practice. The onlookers he captures with his lens in the street provide him with models for his sculptures. Wood became his favourite material from the 1980s onwards, and he carved it in the manner of a craftsman, leaving the chisel marks, imperfections and knots of the wood visible. The sculptures are not polished, they show this direct carving, and are then covered with colour. Mann im grünen Hemd (man in green shirt), 2012 is part of the artist’s production which is free from any psychologising or symbolic ap - proach. He seeks above all to put Man forward in his physical presence. Made of a wawa wood trunk, this figure of a man appears to be a legacy of ancient archaic sculpture – Greek kouros and Egyptian sculpture – to which Stefan Balkenhol often refers. "Far from being organic, my work is architec - tural, in the tectonic sense of the architecture of bodies." "My sculptures do not tell stories. Something mysterious is hidden in them. It is not for me to reveal it, but for the viewer to discover it"
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