ANDREAS BLANK

PART I I:
29 JANUARY - 20 FEBRUARY 2010 | Opening Reception: Friday 29th JANUARY 6-8pm

ARTIST STATEMENT:
The works are about finding or reconstructing poetical images from contemporary life. They are carved from stone with a combination of different seldom stones picked up or transported from quarries/ mountains all over the world. The work is about creating a new order or developing new systems of order and organization.   



Monument 4 | Marble, basalt, alabaster | 27x15x5cm, 35x27x8cm | 2008




Still Life 6 | Sandstone, limestone, serpentinite, alabaster | 37 x 34 x 15 cm | 2009




Shoes for Richard Long | Limestone, marble, serpentinite | 45 x 38 x 33 cm | 2010




UNTITLED | Alabaster, marble | 2009 | Exhibited in Rochelle School for New Sensations 2009




ANDREAS BLANK
Lives and works in UK and Germany

EDUCATION
2001- 2006 Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Karlsruhe
2007 Gaststudent of Andreas Slominski
2007- 2009 Royal College of Art in London

GROUP SHOWS
2009 New Sensations, The Saatchi Gallery and Channel 4 organised at Rochelle School, London
--------Embassy of Afghanistan, Berlin
--------Galerie Knecht, Karlsruhe
--------Lichtfeld 9, Basel
--------St. Pancras Crypt, London
2008 Allen & Overy, London
--------Projektraum, M54, Basel
--------Art Karlsruhe

AWARDS
2002 Fine Art Award, Stadt Ansbach
2004 Scholarhip "Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes“, Hamburg
2007 Residency Foundation Vorwerk, Hamburg
2009 Conran Foundation Award
--------Land Securities Award