Georg Herold: da wo die … Kat. Kunstmuseum Bonn

If you follow an artist’s work for quite a number of years, you will grow fond of it—yes, and you will rejoice in its success. Georg Herold has truly experienced many moments of success and brilliance, distinctions and presentations. That is why now, after he turns 70 in July 2017, he can look back on an impressive career, and calmly prepare a retrospective at Kunstmuseum Bonn. He is now regarded as one of the most prominent international art personalities of the past 30 years, not least because his work embodies an exuberant joy of experimentation. The fact that he uses simple materials, as critics have so frequently and thoroughly perused, or that his work is full of moments of irony, and that he always challenges traditional forms of pictorial representation, in particular of sculpture as such, is true, but it should not distract from the extraordinary work development that took a major leap from postmodern semantics to a modernist work freed from all convention and led, subsequently, to absolute sculptural independence!

Exhibition:
Kunstmuseum Bonn, 21/9/2017–7/1/2018

Georg Herold, born 1947 is a German sculptor. He studied from 1977 until 1983 in Hamburg with Sigmar Polke after he received a training in GDR as a blacksmith. In the early 1980s he exhibited together with Albert and Maruks Oehlen as well as Werner Büttner and Martin Kippenberger. He took distance to the other so-called Hetzler boys and worked on a profound and personal work with an ironic and critical approach. The last years sees more and more sculptures which benefit from his experiments with materials like wooden bars cloth-covered and sprayed or lacquered which are now shifting as casts into hard materials as alumium. Georg Herold’s work is shown worldwide, amongst others at: Kunsthalle Zürich (1989) Museum of Modern Art San Francisco (1990), Kunstverein Köln (1990), Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (1993), Kunsthalle Zurich (1999), Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (2005), Kunstverein Hannover (2006), Kunstverein Heilbronn (2010), Museum Brandhorst Munich (2012), and Kunstmuseum Bonn (2017). He participated at documenta IX in Kassel 1992 and 1997 Skulptur.Projekte Münster.  

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