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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Sebastian Stöhrer: Bewohner

Sebastian Stöhrer: Bewohner

Keller, Christoph
Schwarze, Bernd
Ogunjobi, Cecily

Hardcover

Individual ArtistsSculpting

Publisher Price: $44.99

ISBN10: 3969122066
ISBN13: 9783969122068
Publisher: DCV
Published: Oct 29 2024
Pages: 136
Weight: 1.60
Height: 0.60 Width: 8.00 Depth: 11.90
Language: German
If there's an artist whose oeuvre merits the title creation, it is Sebastian Stö hrer. Shaping clay-- essentially, soil-- he molds his denizens colorful and friendly-looking sculptural beings, some of them enhanced with sticks or branches reminiscent of limbs. Despite their air of levity and humor, they are not the products of mere momentary inspiration or a whim. It takes decades of dedicated experimentation with the kiln based on the millennia-old art of ceramics as well as expert knowledge of chemistry and physics to create such colors and shapes. Stö hrer has been called an alchemist, and indeed he has made it his mission to vindicate this researcher's craft, an ancestor of the natural sciences. Alchemy, like Stö hrer's oeuvre, combines pure rationality with coincidence and a scintilla of magic. The artist plays an intuitive and sensual game with his clay and the virtually incalculable chromaticity of the glazes-- chaos, anarchy, and irrepressible urges being an integral dimension of all creation. In Stö hrer's denizens, we encounter the embodiments of that creation: likenesses of ourselves and perhaps also heralds of a future more good-natured version.

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