In recent years Stefan Löffelhardt has created an oeuvre of sculpture that tackles the theme of landscape in a particular way. In his installation “Tal Grund – The Valley Floor”, he has produced a multi-perspective image of a landscape that can be accessed by the viewer, and which reflects upon the relationship between people, nature and culture in fluid forms and colours. Again Löffelhardt has used tatty, ordinary recycled materials, but this time there are living plants too; this unusual combination releases a poetic power. This examination of romanticism, set against the pragmatism of modernity, transforms the painterly installation into a landscape full of fragments and uncertainties. For the first time, Löffelhart’s photographs of artificial, staged landscapes are being exhibited.

biography

1959 born in Biberach/Riß

1982–1985 apprenticeship as sculptor

1985–1989 studies at Akademie der bildenden Künste München

1990–1994 studies at Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

1989–1994 scholarship of Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes

1996–1998 Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Scholarship

2004/2007 scholarship of Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn

lives and works in Düsseldorf