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Thomas Junghans

Junghans (1956, Recklinghausen) creates abstract sculptures in stone, wood and bronze, mostly torsos and primal portraits, in a primitive, cubic and expressionistic imagery. He also paints and makes ink drawings. His sculptures are monumental and robust of character.
Thomas lets the material of the statues speak for itself: the figures and heads seem to have gotten their form by only a few striking hacks. Nothing is less true. Thomas speaks of a ‘controlled sort of drunkenness’ as a state of mind when he works.
Everytime when he works, he has to overcome a sort of paralysis. Because he knows, as a sculpturor, that if he does something at the wrong moment, that it can happen that he messes up the special tension or composition, or even worse destroy it. With their natural grace, his sculptures, represent somewhat an archaic, unknown nature. His way of working points back at the original shapes, where not reality is the inspiration, but imagination.
This way he emphasizes the indepent character of the sculpture. .

Education

1979 – 1981 Stadsacademie Maastricht/Netherlands 1981 Jan van Eyck Academie Maastricht/Netherlands 1982 – 1985 University for applied sciences in Aachen with Lutz Brockhaus und Wilhelm Schürmann since 1981 Continuous exhibitions in Europe

Solo exhibitions (selected)

Galerie Bode Nürnberg D Art Karlsruhe / Galerie Meier , Freiburg Karlsruhe NL 2015 Galerie Het Cleyne Huys Den Haag NL Art Baho / Art Nou Mil.lenni Gallery Barcelona SP Contemporary Art Fair / Janknegt Fine Art Rotterdam NL Aragon 232 Galeria Barcelona SP Galerie Z Nijmegen NL Galerie Sous terre Lithoijen NL NL Kunstverein Heinsberg Heinsberg D Kopermolen Vaals NL Excellent Beurs / Galerie Sous Terre Rotterdam NL 2013 Produzentengalerie Landshut D Galerie Des Beaux Arts Heeze NL Galerie Meier Freiburg D Galerie Z Nijmegen NL 2012 Galerie van Voorst van Beest Den Haag NL Galerie Zink Bergen NL Art Karlsruhe / Galerie Meier Freiburg Karlsruhe D t’ Oude Hof Bergen NL Galerie Z Nijmegen NL Galerie Bode Nürnberg D Galerie XL / Galerie Post en Garcia Maastricht NL Galerie Meier Freiburg D Flex Galerie Eindhoven NL 2011 Art Karlsruhe / Galerie Meier Freiburg Karlsruhe D Galerie Freitag Aachen D Galerie Zink Bergen NL t’ Ouden Hof Bergen NL Galerie Z Nijmegen NL Galerie van Voorst van Beest Den Haag NL Beeldenpark Dordrechtoevers Dordrecht NL 2010 KIAF/Galerie Bode Seoul KO Daegue Art Fair / Galerie Bode Daegue KO

Group Exhibitions (selected)

Kunst RAI Amsterdam / Janknegt Fine Art Amsterdam NL Pan Amsterdam / Janknegt fine Art Amsterdam Kunst en Antiekbeurs / Galerie Des Beaux Arts Naarden NL Kunsthal 45 Den Helder NL Art en Antiekbeurs / Galerie Des Beaux Arts \’s Hertogenbosch NL Pan Amsterdam / Janknegt Fine Art Amsterdam NL SIPA Seoul International Print Art Fair Seoul KO