Andreas Blank
11 May - 23 Jun 2012
Andreas Blank, Shadows of Words Spoken, 2012, installation view at Christian Ehrentraut, Berlin
© Andreas Blank
Still Life 12, 2012
alabaster, sandstone, quartzite, soapstone
38 x 15 x 34,5 cm
Still Life 12, 2012
alabaster, sandstone, quartzite, soapstone
38 x 15 x 34,5 cm
ANDREAS BLANK
Shadows of Words Spoken
11 May - 23 June 2012
We are pleased to invite you to „Shadows of Words Spoken“, Andreas Blank's first solo exhibition at Galerie Christian Ehrentraut, on Friday, May 11.
In his sculptural practice, Andreas Blank combines the abstract and the realistic, the conceptual as well as the technical. He sources stones from quarries from all over the world, carves them with elaborate deliberation and assembles them in sometimes consciously stylized, and other times deceptively realistic objects of the everyday. In his precise installations, the apparently ephemeral objects achieve monumental permanence. Whether marble, alabaster, or porphyry, material historically used to serve religious or political functions, has in Blank's hands acquired a seemingly casual and fragmentary character. The geographical and cultural identity of the stone and the memorial function of stone-sculpture in general refer to the value of each object. Blank questions the obvious and transforms traditional ideals and values on the ordinary and present.
Andreas Blank was born in Ansbach in 1976. He attended the Karlsruhe State Academy of Art (Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste) and was Meisterschüler under Prof. Klingelhöller. He held a scholarship with the German National Academic Foundation and received his MFA from the Royal College of Art in London. In 2009 he was a finalist for the New Sensations Award by Channel 4 and the Saatchi Gallery. Blank lives and works in London and Franconia.
Shadows of Words Spoken
11 May - 23 June 2012
We are pleased to invite you to „Shadows of Words Spoken“, Andreas Blank's first solo exhibition at Galerie Christian Ehrentraut, on Friday, May 11.
In his sculptural practice, Andreas Blank combines the abstract and the realistic, the conceptual as well as the technical. He sources stones from quarries from all over the world, carves them with elaborate deliberation and assembles them in sometimes consciously stylized, and other times deceptively realistic objects of the everyday. In his precise installations, the apparently ephemeral objects achieve monumental permanence. Whether marble, alabaster, or porphyry, material historically used to serve religious or political functions, has in Blank's hands acquired a seemingly casual and fragmentary character. The geographical and cultural identity of the stone and the memorial function of stone-sculpture in general refer to the value of each object. Blank questions the obvious and transforms traditional ideals and values on the ordinary and present.
Andreas Blank was born in Ansbach in 1976. He attended the Karlsruhe State Academy of Art (Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste) and was Meisterschüler under Prof. Klingelhöller. He held a scholarship with the German National Academic Foundation and received his MFA from the Royal College of Art in London. In 2009 he was a finalist for the New Sensations Award by Channel 4 and the Saatchi Gallery. Blank lives and works in London and Franconia.