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Sculpture, Stainless steel, Red color
29 x 25 x 15 cm
29 x 25 cm (External dimensions)
The dream of flying becomes a reality in Rainer Lagemann’s work. His sculptures reveal the unique beauty of the human body. He artfully welds delicate metal squares into graceful figures that appear to float, almost weightless, in dance-like movements. Through gaps of different sizes left between the squares, he lends the pieces a… Read more
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IntroductionThe dream of flying becomes a reality in Rainer Lagemann’s work. His sculptures reveal the unique beauty of the human body. He artfully welds delicate metal squares into graceful figures that appear to float, almost weightless, in dance-like movements. Through gaps of different sizes left between the squares, he lends the pieces a remarkable lightness. Lagemann moved to the United States in 1988; after his studies in Design and Interior Architecture, Germany felt too restrictive to him.
“I use metal squares to sculpt the human form, creating works that elicit both the strength and delicacy of the body,” explains Lagemann. By daylight, his sculptures appear as if put together from pulled-apart strands of DNA. At night, the shiny material takes on an entirely new dimension. To create such lifelike frames, the artist takes plaster casts of people and uses them as three-dimensional “stencils”. The resulting, life-sized sculptures follow the idea of something unfinished: a work in progress. Whilst the bodies appear to be frozen mid-jump, in our mind’s eye, the figures have already landed, turned pirouettes, and taken on new positions. Lagemann is a master of this remarkable effect.
Lagemann’s work has long been exhibited in the USA, Canada, Singapore, and across Europe.Bio
1959 Born in Düsseldorf, Germany 1983-1987 Studied Interior Architecture at FH Detmold, Detmold, Germany Lives and works in Miami, USA Awards
2010 First Prize Sculpture, Miami Beach Festival of the Arts, Miami, USA Collections
The Kreeger Museum, Washington, DC, USA The Baker Museum, Naples, USA ExhibitionsSolo Exhibitions
2013 Rainer Lagemann – The Square Formed, Rukaj Gallery, Toronto, Canada 2013 Physical, Emotional, Intellectual, Spiritual, Ode to Art Gallery, Singapore Group Exhibitions
2014 Off the Wall: Rainer Lagemann & James Verbicky, DTR Modern Galleries, Washington, DC, USA 2013 Punctum contra Punctum II USA, Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center, Fort Meyers, USA 2012 Winter Group Show, Etra Fine Art, Miami, USA 2010 Future Structure: Andrew Au and Rainer Lagemann, Dayton Visual Arts Center, Dayton, USA Florida Contemporary 2010, Naples Museum of Art, Naples, USA 2009 Boca Raton Museum Arts Festival, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, USA 2007 Group Show, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, USA
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