Video: Rough wood sculptures depicting ordinary people
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The most ordinary people carved in wood are a favorite theme of a modern German sculptor. The heroes of his works are made with minimal detail, naked or wearing unassuming clothes, and often just stare into space.
Sculptor Stephan Balkenhol invites the viewer to think out the story of a particular person himself, creating not a complete idea, but giving an impetus for reflection. That is why the author grinds the figures deliberately roughly, without smoothing the corners. The texture of the sculptures evokes associations with oil painting, namely - with dynamic wide strokes made with a palette knife. Finished figures are painted with acrylic - the sculptor does not waste time mixing shades, preferring pure calm colors.
On the one hand, the author's works cannot be called something amazing and unique. On the other hand, this is precisely their beauty. These are the figures of the most ordinary people around each of us in everyday life. Many entertain themselves by inventing biographies of people who have been seen for just a couple of minutes on the street, in a train or in a store. Similar Stephan Balkenhol recommends doing with your sculptures - giving them your own meanings and writing stories about these characters.
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