Featuring new works by Johannes Esper, this viewing room highlights the recent developments in the German artist’s sculptural practice. Known for his aesthetically challenging work with clay and ceramics, his new sculptures transfigure his existing formal concerns into the realm of assemblage. Scraps of wood, dirt and discarded objects come together in various ways to form graceful yet defiant pieces. The fine balance of disparate elements can at times bring to mind the subtle compositions of Richard Tuttle, but the subtext is clearly different here; just as when Esper loosely evokes late modernist canons such as Anthony Caro, it is always with a kind of ‘poor man’s humor.’
Born in 1971 in Cochem (Germany), Johannes Esper lives and works in Karlsruhe. He studied sculpture at the State Academy of Visual Arts in Karlsruhe from 1998 to 2004. His work has been exhibited in galleries and public institutions throughout Germany and Europe including exhibitions at Kunsthalle Baselland (2017), Wilhelm-Hack Museum Ludwigshafen (2013), Museum Wiesbaden (2009) and Bundeskunsthalle Bonn (2005).

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