Sculpture "Column Saints - Pair I", cast hand-painted
Sculpture "Column Saints - Pair I", cast hand-painted
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limited, 333 copies | numbered | signed | cast | hand-painted | size 15 x 43 cm (w/h)
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Sculpture "Column Saints - Pair I", cast hand-painted
Since 2001, Christoph Pöggeler has been presenting everyday people in the public sphere of urban space in the project "Pillar Saints". He places all of them on the pedestals of poster pillars in Düsseldorf's city centre. People from the middle of society - are lifted out of everyday life.
Sculpture made of cast iron. Figures hand-painted by the artist. Limited edition 333 copies, numbered and signed by hand. Size 15 x 43 cm (w/h).
Producer: ars mundi Edition Max Büchner GmbH, Bödekerstraße 13, 30161 Hanover, Germany, [email protected]
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About Christoph Pöggeler
Christoph Pöggeler, born in 1958, in Münster, Germany, studied under Professor Alfonso Hüppi at the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf. He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in Europe, Asia and Africa. Pöggeler is also active as a curator and lecturer. In 2008, he received the Rhineland Art Prize for his work. He lives and works in Düsseldorf.
The artist has made a name for himself as a sculptor and painter. As a sculptor, he has been involved with the "Pillar Saint" project since 2001, presenting human sculptures on advertising columns.
As a painter, he finds materials, surfaces and traces of memory on which he creates his pictures. Starting from the grained surfaces of old woods that show traces of use, Pöggeler develops a unique form of painting that generates a pictorial reality based on the structural surface of what has been found that is both realistic and surprising. In this way, he creates images of such high plausibility that one might think they have always been there.
Collective term for all casting processes that ars mundi carries out with the help of specialised art foundries.
Stone Casting
Similar to artificial marble, with the difference that instead of marble powder, the stone to be replicated is used in powder form.
Bonded Bronze (Cold-Cast-Bronze)
Bronze powder is polymer-bonded. Through special polishing and patination techniques, the surface of the cast takes on an appearance similar to that of bronze.
Imitation Wood
In order to guarantee absolute fidelity to the original, an artificially manufactured imitation wood is used as a base material that features typical wood characteristics: density, workability, colour, and surface structure.
Ceramic Mould Casting
Ceramic mould casting usually requires the use of casting clay, which is then fired and optionally glazed. Instead of the usual rubber moulds, plaster moulds are often used in ceramic casting and porcelain production.
Cast Bronze (Lost-Wax-Casting)
For the cast bronze, the thousand-year-old lost-wax technique is used. It's the best, but also the most complex method of producing sculptures.
A plastic work of sculptural art made of wood, stone, ivory, bronze or other metals.
While sculptures made of wood, ivory, or stone are carved directly from the material block, in bronze casting, a working model is prepared at first. Usually, it is made of clay or other easily mouldable materials.
The prime time of sculpture after the Greek and Roman antiquity was the Renaissance. Impressionism gave a new impulse to the sculptural arts. Contemporary artists such as Jorg Immendorf, Andora, and Markus Lupertz also enriched sculptures with outstanding works.