![]() Plus occasional updates on Dezeen’s services and breaking news. Sent every Thursday and featuring a selection of the best reader comments and most talked-about stories. Our most popular newsletter, formerly known as Dezeen Weekly. Tamayo Museum by Rojkind Arquitectos and BIG The construction of “home“ becomes a metaphor for existential questions: How do I define home? How do I perceive my inner and outer self? How do I define myself? With his objects, Strumbel creates a world of illusion that reflects society’s real maladies. The artist unmasks the mechanisms of a society that is urged to the pursuit of consumerism by having surrendered to the attraction of the media. With his art, Strumbel initiates a change in social values: Traditional ideals, clichéd notions of home and the reality of the individual are dissolved and transformed into an aesthetics that becomes an allegory of social status symbols. His objects simultaneously provoke and attract the audience by decadence and violations of taboos. Strumbel, however, creates both an artificial and artistic aesthetics with his usage of extreme exaggerations in regard to form and content. The wooden carvings are excellently crafted and, with their bright and colorful surface, appear as light and shiny pieces of pop art. A typical carnival mask from the Black Forest region, such as the “pig mask“, bears a wooden grenade instead of the apple that would be usually expected by the audience.Īt first sight, these objects do not appear disturbing. Significant elements of the cuckoo clock, such as traditionally carved ornaments, are replaced by aggressive motives that stand for violence, pornography and death. By doing so, he puts these objects into a new, partly provocative context. Strumbel exaggerates these objects of popular cult and culture with elements of urban art and pop art. The exhibition encompasses objects from folk art that refer to the clichéd notions of home, folklore and popular piety: the traditional cuckoo clock, wooden masks of the Alemannic Carnival or typical crucifixes mainly used in catholic households. On an abstract level, Strumbel deals with the paradigms of “home“ and simultaneously questions its concept. ![]() With his art, Strumbel uses traditional motives that are associated with his origin, the Black Forest. Pictures courtesy of Stefan Strumbel, Badische Zeitung, BW-Jetzt.įor all the latest art news, sign up for free to My Widewalls today.OPENING: AP7 - 9.30 PM / / EXHIBITION: APRIL 30 - J// TUE - FR, 2 - 6 PM / SAT 12 - 6 PMĬircleculture Gallery presents Stefan Strumbel’s solo show “Home Sweet Home“. Stefan Strumbel - Kuckucksuhr for Karl Lagerfeld We believe that Strumbel’s art is more than capable to pervade the international contemporary art market and will follow his development very closely. Despite the fact that leading figures such as Karl Lagerfeld, Selim Varol and Sophie Steinmeyer are collectors of his art. His popularity is mainly limited to the confines of his home country. Nevertheless, Stefan Strumbel is not as well known, as he should be. The result is never before seen art objects that found their way to the homes of several leading German collectors. Stefan Strumbel’s work is therefore in constant dispute with the paradigm of his rural upbringing and a very modern perception of contemporary urban art. By replacing traditional ornaments with motives depicting pornography, aggression and death he creates pop-art-like pieces that stand for the change in our value system. Furthermore the artist utilizes religious objects like the crucifix and adds stylistic elements from the urban and street –art world. Strumbel abstracts this classical wall clock and mixes it with bright colors, contemporary objects and urban art ideas. The “Kuckucksuhr” he most frequently uses originates from this region. The objects he chooses to re-design are traditional objects from the Black Forest region in Germany. ![]() The deep relationship to his birthplace is also expressed in his art. Stefan Strumbel, the Offenburg born and raised contemporary artist still works from his hometown. Stefan Strumbel explains his design process (in German) Prerequisite to understanding what the guy is saying: German language skills 101. Watch the Video of Stefan Strumbel explaining his creative design process. With a little luck, buyers of Monopol magazine have the chance to come into possession of a signed edition of 50 with collectors value. Collectors have the special motivation to purchase this month’s Monopol issue because 50 art prints are signed. An art print of the “Kuckucksuhr” is included in this month’s edition of the art magazine Monopol. German contemporary artist Stefan Strumbel created one of his signature “Kuckucksuhren” for the Baden Wuerttemberg campaign “Heimat Großer Kunst”.
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