Exhibition Klaus Hack - Galerie SCHMALFUSS BERLIN

until 15.06. | #4287ARTatBerlin | Galerie SCHMALFUSS BERLIN presents from 4 May 2024 the exhibition “Weltenwechsler – Klaus Hack” with woodcuts, sculptures and works on paper by the renowned sculptor Klaus Hack.

Spatial designs ranging from the architectural to the archaic.

Portrait Klaus Hack © Florian Selig, Berlin

Klaus Hack’s works are created directly from the wooden trunk, which provides the direction for the upward verticality. This is always based on the idea of the stele. His figures – seated, standing, moving on stilts or raised on pedestals – are also figures of verticality. Both the architectural elements and the varied interpretations and independent motifs of the human body are designs in space: three-dimensional, spatial and physical. Hack’s open-worked wooden sculptures are not only independent sculptures, the sculptor also uses them as printing blocks for large-format woodcuts. The cylindrical sculptures are rolled up on canvases for this purpose and can thus be printed several times. The sculptures, deliberately left raw and smelling of wood and printing ink, then form an attractive contrast to the wide-span prints at exhibitions.

Klaus Hack, Kronos, 1998, Holzschnitt, 150 x 129,5 cm, ed. 7 expl.

Klaus Hack was born in Bayreuth in 1966. From 1989-91 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg under Professor Wilhelm Uhlig and from 1991-96 at the Berlin University of the Arts under Professors Rolf Szymanski and Lothar Fischer, whose master student he was. Hack has received numerous scholarships and awards. He has taught at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee, among others. The wood sculptor has lived and worked in Seefeld/Brandenburg since 1995.

Klaus Hack, Jeanne d Arc, 2022, 2023, Poplar, oak, beech with white finish,
141 x 112 x 40 cm © Florian Selig, Berlin

The SCHMALFUSS BERLIN – contemporary fine arts gallery stands for contemporary art and offers both established and fresh positions a place to make contact with the interested public.

Klaus Hack, Fünf Türme, 2018, 2019, Oak, painted white,
189.5 x 31 x 32 cm, mounted on iron plate

Michael W. Schmalfuß founded his first gallery in Marburg in 2001. Prior to this, the gallery owner curated an “art supermarket” in Marburg together with Mario Terez. Since 2011, Michael W. Schmalfuß has been showing solo and group exhibitions several times a year on over 200 square metres of exhibition space at Knesebeckstraße 96 in Berlin. The selected works with very different formats, materials and individual artistic imagery range from abstract and concrete to photorealistic.

Klaus Hack, Steinbock, 2012, Poplar, white coloured,
112 x 67 x32 cm © Bernd Borchardt

Virtual tours of the exhibitions are available for viewing on the gallery website.

Vernissage: Saturday, 4. May 2024, 4 – 8 pm

Exhibition period: Saturday, 4. May until Saturday 15. June 2024

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Image Caption: Klaus Hack, Fanatischer Sanitäter 2 | Druckstock, Fichte, 174 x29 x32 cm, zwei Drucke auf Leinwand | 180,5 x 143,5 cm, 180,5 x 143 cm, 2018 © Florian Selig, Berlin

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