{"product_id":"16079-stephan-balkenhol-public","title":"Stephan Balkenhol. public","description":"\u003cFONT style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff\" size=4 face=Arial\u003e\u003cFONT size=2\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-ansi-language: EN-US\"\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-ansi-language: EN-US\"\u003e\u003cFONT size=2\u003eThe wood sculptures by Stephan Balkenhol (*1957 in Fritzlar), one of the most important German sculptors, are equally palpable in public space as they are in the public’s consciousness. His figures of humans and animals, usually hewn out of poplar with a chisel and populating streets, squares, or office corridors as if they were a matter of course, are succinct and at the same time apparently inconspicuous—almost other-worldly. Even his \u003cI\u003eGiraffe Man,\u003c\/I\u003e\u003cSPAN style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: italic\"\u003e erected in 2006 in front of the ARTE headquarters in Strasbourg and one of his best-known sculptures,\u003c\/SPAN\u003e is by no means strange, looking rather like an Everyman despite its long giraffe neck. This volume not only documents the sculptures Balkenhol has realized for public spaces since 2000, it also contains an illustrated catalogue of all the artist's sculptures produced since 1984.\u003c?xml:namespace prefix = \"o\" \/\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/FONT\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/FONT\u003e\u003c\/FONT\u003e\n","brand":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45056229409032,"sku":"9783775722933","price":39.8,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8948\/8049\/files\/odoo_9783775722933_9204ccc8-0ba4-497e-8d6e-332139f98c1c.jpg?v=1744137835","url":"https:\/\/www.hatjecantz.de\/en\/products\/16079-stephan-balkenhol-public","provider":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","version":"1.0","type":"link"}