Sculpture as a medium for the representation of the unconscious
At the Gerhard-Marcks-Haus, the Belgian sculptor Johan Tahon presents his meter-high stone sculptures - elongated human- and animal-like figures. The Gerhard-Marcks-Haus is the the first museum in Germany to dedicate a comprehensive solo exhibition to Johan Tahon.
He is one of the few contemporary artists who use sculpture as a medium for the representation of the unconscious. He builds bridges with his figurative sculptures -- bridges to another side of human existence beyond the visible reality. Following his obsessive creative urge, he tries to make dreams, fantasies and images appear.
Johan Tahon, born 1965 in Menen, Belgium, studied sculpture in Ghent at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. He lives and works in Oudenaarde in Belgium. Since his discovery by the artistic director of Documenta IX, Jan Hoet, his work has been honored with exhibitions in Belgium, the Netherlands and in the USA. Numerous works have been acquired in recent years from public collections.
A catalog is available for the price of 23, - €, documenting the exhibition and including two essays that illuminate Tahon’s overlap of dream images with reality and his classification in the history of art.
The exhibition is supported by the Flemish Minister for Culture in Brussels, the Flemish Representation / Belgian Embassy in Berlin and the Friends of the Gerhard-Marcks-Haus e. V.
09/26/2010 to 01/09/2011
Gerhard-Marcks-Haus, Am Wall 208 28195 Bremen
