Bronze , patinated and in colors. Plinth with the monogram, the number and the foundry mark of Schmäke, Düsseldorf. From an edition of 25 copies. Height: 55 cm. Plinth: 13,8 x 20 cm.
Published by Art of the next century, Paris / New York. [CH].
- Stephan Balkenhol's artistic work focuses on the human being, which the artist does not portray as an individual, but as an anonymous, average and yet familiar figure. - Despite the heaviness and solidity of their material, the figures display a natural, casual posture, a strange sense of intimacy, self-confidence and a tangible spatial presence. Other works in bronze can be found at, among others, the Kunsthalle in Baden-Baden (“Ikarus”, 2006), in front of the Central Library in Hamburg (“Mann und Frau”, 2004) and in front of Hagenbecks Tierpark (“Mann auf Giraffe”, 2001). - Comprehensive exhibitions of the artist's work have been shown at the Smithsonian Institute and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, the National Museum of Art, Osaka, the Sprengel Museum, Hanover, the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg, the Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, and the MKM Museum Küppersmühle für moderne Kunst, Duisburg.
LITERATURE: Sameena Rahman, Galerie Löhrl (ed.), Stephan Balkenhol, Bronze-Editionen 1992-2019, Mönchengladbach 2019, cat. no. 8, pp. 42 and 137 (with full-page illu. on p. 43).