ARNDT Singapore is a project space, viewing room and Asian office for internationally renowned art dealer Matthias Arndt.
ARNDT Singapore will be staging shows of leading international artists as well as projects and curated shows featuring Southeast Asian art. The Singapore office will enable ARNDT to further develop both private and corporate collections and artist management in the Asia-Pacific region.
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Stephan Balkenhol, Installation shot, Right side: Figur „Elefantenmann“ (Figure ,Elephant man’), 2013,
Coloured popplar wood, 200 x 64 x 34 cm
Stephan Balkenhol, Installation shot, Left side: Mann mit brauner Lederjacke und blauer Hose (Man in brown leather jacket and blue trouser), 2013, Coloured wawa wood, 170 x 24 x 30 cm
Stephan Balkenhol, Installation shot, Right side: Relief „Mann“ (Relief ,Man’), 2013,
Coloured wawa wood, 67 x 60 x 2 cm
Stephan Balkenhol, Männlicher und weiblicher Akt (Male and female nude), 2013,
Coloured birch tree ply wood, Left panel: 150 x 100 x 3 cm; Right panel: 150 x 150 x 3 cm
Stephan Balkenhol (b. 1957) is a prominent artist particularly known for his rough-hewn sculptures, each chiseled from a block of wood and then painted. He lives and works between Kassel, Karlsruhe, Berlin, and Meisenthal, France. Since 1993 he has been a professor of sculpture at the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe. He has been exhibiting his work for over 30 years at various galleries and museums around the globe.
Balkenhol places the focus of the exhibition on the human figure with an elephant head, which hails back to his group of works from the 1990s where he mixed humans and animals in a type of hybrid piece. The sculpture establishes a connection to the Hindu deity Ganesha. This deity stands for the perfect Hindu family, together with his mother Parvati and his father Shiva, the deity with multiple arms. “Ganesha and Shiva are archetypical representations that are also prevalent in Europe. They’re the pop stars of the deities,” remarks Balkenhol. The artist uses his elephant man as a paraphrase for the various reproductions of Ganesha as he draws himself nearer to a culture that is still foreign to him. The exhibition in Singapore has several sculptures and mural reliefs created by Balkenhol surrounding this one central figure.
Stephan Balkenhol’s recent solo shows include large-scale exhibitions at Musée de Grenoble (Sculptures and drawings, 2010/11) and the Deichtorhallen art center in Hamburg (Stephan Balkenhol, 2008/09). Balkenhol’s work has also been extensively exhibited in public spaces. His piece “Balancing art” has been perched in front of the Axel-Springer building in Berlin since 2009, evoking memories of the fall of the Berlin wall. His oversized male torso “Sempre più ...”, designed for for the Forum Romanum in Rome, also in 2009. “Sempre più ...” piece was on display at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, Austria, for the Salzburg Festival in 2011, and in 2012, in the courtyard of the Church St. Elisabeth in Kassel, Germany. The exhibition in Kassel took place at the same time as Documenta 13 and showed a sculpture that was integrated into the church tower and quickly became a permanent fixture in the city landscape. For the 200th anniversary of Richard Wagner’s birthday in 2013 Balkenhol created a monument of the German composer for the city of Leipzig.
Arndt Singapore is pleased to be hosting the first solo exhibition of the artist in Singapore and Southeast Asia.
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