Artist: Harald Klingelhöller
Venue:Â Konrad Fischer, Berlin
Exhibition Title: Die Welt erzählt (zweifach, sternförmig)
Date: October 10, 2020 â January 23, 2021
Full gallery of images, press release and link available after the jump.
Images:
Courtesy of the artist & Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin. Photos by Roman März.
Press Release:
We are pleased to present âDIE WELT ERZÃHLT (ZWEIFACH, STERNFÃRMING)â, Harald Klingelhöllerâs ninth solo exhibition. The sculptor, who teaches at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe, has been exhibiting continuously at Konrad Fischer Galerie since 1983.
Most of Harald Klingelhöllerâs sculptures are preceded by linguistic formulations of ideas, memories and suggestions that, after being written down, are partially and repeatedly saved in these sculptures and linked to a spatial experience. Examples of these recurring abstract or poetic textual structures are âIch bin hier, Du bist hierâ (âI am here, you are hereâ), âIn landscapes reacting to wordsâ, âDas Meer bei Ebbe geträumtâ (âDreaming the sea at low tideâ) or âDie Welt erzähltâ (âThe world is tellingâ), to name just a few. These can be found in the current exhibition in four different sculptural approaches: in the âSternförmigenâ (star-shaped), the âSchweben- denâ (floating), the âSchrankversionâ (cabinet version) and the âEcho”.
Klingelhöller puts the stars at our feet, so to speak. In order to be able to keep them on the ground, he uses solid metal profiles made of copper, brass or lead with a trapezoidal cross-section. The dimensions of the upper viewing sides of the individual star rays are determined by the dimensions of the printed title-giving words, their number by the shape of the star to be formed, hence, for example, âThe world is told (twofold, star-shaped)â.
The situation is similar in the âSchrankversionâ (cabinet version), whose drawer dimensions have been transferred from the words âThe Floor was Grey and Everybody Brings his Questionsâ.
The âSchwebendenâ (floating) are new constellations of previous âSchattenversionenâ (shadow versions) in the artistâs Åuvre. Klingelhöller locates the silhouettes of previous sculptures, which have been changed in size, multiplied and deformed into three dimensions, in spatial elements whose scale can only be determined relatively. In these constellations they protrude from a past presence into a fictional future space â playing with temporality and multiple spatiality.
The same is true of the âEchoâ, which extends from ceiling to floor and which was measured from the acoustic spectogram of a question posed by the artist â the âechoâ as a medium of spatial depth the question âWill you be there?â a spatial presence, from an imaginary âyouâ to an imaginary âthereâ.
âWe are dealing with a directionless, dimensionless distance when we invoke the presence of the world with our sculptures and we experience that it comes towards us as something elseâ*, to conclude with Harald Klingelhöllerâs own words.
(*quoted from Beat Wismerâs catalog text for Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, Wuppertal, 2013)
Link: Harald Klingelhöller at Konrad Fischer
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