{"id":18218,"date":"2023-01-26T16:41:09","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T15:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jousse-entreprise.com\/art-contemporain\/?post_type=artistes&#038;p=18218"},"modified":"2023-02-09T15:13:42","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T14:13:42","slug":"stephan-balkenhol","status":"publish","type":"artistes","link":"https:\/\/www.jousse-entreprise.com\/art-contemporain\/en\/artistes\/stephan-balkenhol\/","title":{"rendered":"STEPHAN BALKENHOL"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Born in 1957 at Fritzlar, in Germany<br \/>\nHe lives and works between Kassel and Karlsruhe in Germany, and Meisenthal in France.<\/p>\n<p>Known for his wooden sculptures, Stephan Balkenhol carves his figures directly from tree trunks \u2013 often wawa or cedar wood \u2013 using a mallet and a chisel, without trying to erase the traces left by his tools. This unique technique gives a sense of individuality to each sculpture, further reinforced by the colours chosen to structure and animate the figures. Placed at human height on raw wooden plinths, these men, women and even hybrid beings that seem plucked from a fable or opera, appear both distanced and in tune with the viewer.<\/p>\n<p>Balkenhol\u2019s early works \u2013 male or female nudes on pedestals \u2013 echo classical Greek statues, while carefully positioned features and extraordinarily lifelike postures belie their apparent simplicity. This focus on<br \/>\nthe human form set him apart from the contemporary art movements of the 1970s, when the emphasis was on abstract, Minimal and Conceptual approaches and figuration had fallen from favour. By the<\/p>\n<p>1990s, his repertoire had expanded to include animals and hybrid creatures, as well as the introduction of architectural motifs and reliefs. Recent works feature contemporary figures dressed in everyday attire. Showing few signs of emotion and bearing no socio-political references, these figures negate and transcend the specifics of any narrative, instead embodying the universal ideas of beings, objects and places.<\/p>\n<p>Balkenhol has studied at the University of Fine Arts, Hamburg from 1976-82. His work has been shown<br \/>\nin numerous solo exhibitions at institutions including the Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany (2020\u201321); Museum Jorn, Silkeborg, Denmark (2020); Kunsthalle Emden, Germany (2018); CAC Ma\u0301laga (2018); Moscow Museum of Modern Art (2016); Landesmuseum Linz (2014\u201315); Ravensburg Art Museum, Germany (2014); Museum of Grenoble, France (2010); Deichtorhallen Hamburg (2008\u201309); and Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden (2006). He has also completed a number of public commissions around the world, including a tribute to Auguste Macke that was inaugurated in Bonn in 2018 and a larger-than-life figure of a man in Toronto in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Text source: Thaddaeus Ropac gallery<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":18369,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-18218","artistes","type-artistes","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>STEPHAN BALKENHOL | Jousse-entreprise | Art Contemporain<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Stephan Balkenhol was born in 1957 in Fritzlar, Germany. 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