Andreas Blank
Andreas Blank (born 1976 in Ansbach) studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe under Prof. Klingelhöller and completed his Master's degree at the Royal College of Art in London. He was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation and after his studies he received the Land Securities Award, became a finalist of the New Sensation Award of the Saatchi Gallery
and was honored with the Conran Award in London.
The artist combines abstract and representational as well as conceptual practices in his sculptures.
He searches for rare stones in various parts of the world, processes them in elaborate work processes and assembles them sometimes into stylized, sometimes into deceptively real-looking everyday objects.
His sculptures show soldiers' boots in a cardboard box or a leather briefcase with a spotless white suit shirt. Astonishingly realistic, but all made of stone: marble, alabaster, basalt, serpentinite or limestone. His sculptural work thrives on the art of subliminal deception and subtle irritation. The cool surface contrasts with the expected sensory impression, the immaculate, understated aesthetics counteract the theme of the object. Monument-like, every trace of the human is erased from these works. With his conceptually conceived figurative works, he sublimely shakes up our ingrained patterns of perception and thus of thought.
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