ROBIN HORSCH | SCULPTURES AND COLLAGES

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Exhibition September 19 - November 8, 2008
Opening Reception Friday, September 19, 2008, 7 pm


In our current exhibition we show sculptures, paintings and collages of Robin Horsch. The gallery has been cooperating with the Muelheim based artist as long ago as 2000, and has continuously shown his stages of developement in solo exhibitions. The upcoming exhibition exclusively shows works of the recent two years.
Horsch became famous with his thin and tall wooden figures, which were originally inspired by etruscan bronzes. Like those the Horsch figures had a strict hieratic and frontal orientation. In the course of the recent years he abandoned the strictness step by step. The figures now are in free postures and movement. In distinction from the former sculptures Horsch now worked with a blowtorch, which gives a dark coloured and rugged surface. In addition to it he created a new tall bronze, which is for the first time a composition of found objects.
The paintings and collages of Robin Horsch are still less known than his sculpture, though he has always been a painter beside a sculptor. In the painting and the collage the private memory of Horsch grows to a collective. Here the master drawing combines with everyday wastes; the "made" with the "found"; the ironical with the serious-meant item. All those unite ambiguously to an aesthetic world, which poetically sublimates our reality.