Pokorny
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| Editor(s) | Andrea Brandl |
| Author(s) | Christopher Bauer, Dorit Schäfer, Kirsten Claudia Voigt, Werner Meyer, Ulrike Lorenz |
| Design | Neues Sortiment, Karlsruhe |
| Size | 22 x 28 cm |
| Pages | 136 |
| Illustrations | 96 |
| Cover | Hardcover with dustjacket |
| Language(s) | German |
| ISBN | 978-3-947563-35-7 |
“Abstraction means the omission of the irrelevant and the unnecessary in order to find more substantial content and form.”—Werner Pokorny
His often monumental sculptures can be found in many places in Germany and abroad, including Aachen, Berlin, Busan (South Korea), Frankfurt am Main, Freiburg, Karlsruhe, Riehen, Saarbrücken, and Stuttgart. Werner Pokorny works (b. 1949, Mosbach; lives and works in Ettlingen) exclusively with Corten steel for his outdoor sculptures and with wood, steel, and bronze for his indoor works. Well-known basic forms such as bowls, spheres, cuboids, and houses serve as points of departure and reference, which are abstracted by reduction, rotation, tilting, or combination with other elements. The artistic field of tension characteristic of Pokorny’s impressive sculptural oeuvre is due to the oscillation between form and abstraction, figure and reduction, hard edges and soft curves.
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