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23. MRZ – 21. APR 2024 Drei Liebeserklärungen Doris Brunner, Michael Priester und Michael Zimmer Doris Brunner, Michael Priester und Michael Zimmer präsentieren drei unterschiedliche künstlerische Perspektiven auf den Menschen, nämlich eine malerische, eine bildhauerische und eine fotographische. Alle drei vereint die Auseinandersetzung mit dem ewig Weiblichen. Die Werke laden dazu ein, sich in ihnen zu verlieren und immer wieder Neues zu entdecken: wenn Blicke fühlen möchten! Doris Brunner arbeitet spontan, meistens nach Modell. Dabei kommt es ihr nicht auf Genauigkeit an, sondern auf einen Augenblick, eine Stimmung oder eine Geste. Oft verwendet sie Papiere, die schon bemalt oder bedruckt sind. Auf diese Weise entstehen Zeichnungen und Collagen. Im Werk von Michael Priester aus Butzbach im Taunus dominieren weibliche Figuren und Formen. Aus unterschiedlichen Gesteinsarten oder besonderen Hölzern, die er zum Teil von Reisen mitbringt, erschafft er, der gelernte

Yesterday there was the celebration of the sculpture park in Bad Vilbel - Massenheim. It dates back 15 years that the first sculptures have been in a park along the stream of the Erlenach in Bad Vilbel Massenheim. Meanwhile nearly 100 sculptures of around 50 artist had been exposed there, some are still there, some had been removed by the artists. Each year a handful of new works are added. This sculpture garden is public, not fenced, open all day and night, no access fee. And it is highly popular amongst the neighbors and other visitors. Since a couple of years my stone sculpture Fuß des Taunus (foot of the Taunus) is exposed there. This sculpture was worked during a symposium in Oberursel in 2013, a venue where we had access to a crane to help us manipulate the stone. This was urgently needed, as the basalt comun had a weight of 3,5 tons. Please see the blog on the Sculpture Project (in German language) here: https://auenkunst-massenheim.de/ The objects are presented here:

In January I started a new stone sculpture: as usual a female torso in balance. I had since quite some time a stone base from a very beautiful diabas stone. It was dark and very evenly fine grained. For me it was too beautiful to be left as a square cut base, for which I had no use. Consequently it was planned to convert it into a sculpture. I added a gallery with all the steps of the work until reaching the final product. See under: https://www.deviantart.com/gecko-online/gallery/78260555/process-of-sculpting-the-balance