Maximilian Verhas
Born in Essen in 1960, Maximillian Verhas studied Painting and Graphic Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg from 1981 until 1986 before taking up Sculpture at the University of the Arts in Berlin from 1986 until 1990. He began creating his so-called Rollkorper, i.e. rolling bodies, around the end of his degree.
With these Rollkorper, Verhas explores the traditional definition of sculpture, but overturns it by creating a moving multi-factetted work whose identity changes with its position. The concept of multiple perpectives is challenged and redefined. The viewer cannot only see the customary exterior sides of the sculpture; the under and upper sides can also be examined alternately. Verhas redefines the object not as a predetermined form viewed at different angles, but as a varying identity defined by its viewpoint and position.
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Combined Steps and Stairsbronze30cm x 20cm x 15cm (11.8" x 7.9")
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CorrespondBronze28cm x 20cm x 20cm (11" x 7.9" x 7.9")
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Dividing Fat LinesBronze34cm x 20cm x 20cm (13.4" x 7.9" x 7.9")
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Outsiderbronze30cm x 27cm x 23cm (11.8" x 10.6")
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Rolling SeastarBronze38cm x 31cm x 31cm (15" x 12.2" x 12.2")
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Threedimensional HighwayBronze26cm x 26cm x 26cm (10.2" x 10.2"x 10.2")
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Walking PillowBronze12cm x 13cm x 13cm (4.7" x 5.1" x 5.1")
1960 Born in Essen, Germany
EXHIBITIONS
2016 Other Sides of Sculptures in Motion, Galerie Friedmann-Hahn, Berlin
2014 Galerie Scorpion, Hamburg
2014 Sculptures in Motion, Galerie Friedmann-Hahn, Berlin
2012 Galerie 15A, Lochem
2012 Art Bodensee, Dornbirn
2012 Art Fair Köln, Cologne
2012 Galerie 15 A, Lochem
2011 Galerie Mönter, Meerbusch 2010 Stadtgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart
2010 Galerie Voigt, Nürnberg
2010 Art Madrid, Madrid
2010 Art Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe
2010 Falkenstern Fine Art, Sylt
2010 Stadtgalerie U. Hajek, Stuttgart
2010 Art Madrid, Madrid
2010 Art Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe
2009 Galerie Anaaan, New Delhi
2008 Galerie Schmalfuß, Marburg
2007 Galerie Sculptur, Bamberg
2004 Sammlung Ströher, Darmstadt
2003 Galerie Effelsberg, Königswinter
2003 Galerie Leu, Munich
2002 Galerie Barbara von Stechow, Frankfurt am Main
2000 Moving sculptures, Museum Dr. Bamberger Haus, Rendsburg
1998 Stahlskulpturen, Petruskirche, Berlin
1995 Sculptures in motion, Stichting Museum, Vaals
1994 Fundstücke, Rathaus Schöneberg, Berlin
1990 Große Stahlskulpturen, Hypothekenbank Köln, Rheinboden