12.10.2025 – 02.11.2025
with
Franz Josef Altenburg · Karin Bablok · Ute Brade · Hans Fischer · Konrad Franz · Klaus Lehmann · Atsushi Mannami · Johannes Nagel · Antje Scharfe
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Exhibition opening on Sunday, 23.03.2025.
The gallery is open from 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.
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The exhibition is open
- Wednesday 14.30 – 19.00
- Saturday, 2.30 – 6 p.m.
- Sunday 11.00 – 17.00
- the gallery is open on All Saints Day
and by appointment:
- Phone: +49 (0)6021 460224
- E-Mai: info@galerie-metzger.de
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SCULPTURE en minature
Small sculptures want to be viewed up close.
In their intensification, they confidently give quiet responses to the noise of the times.
Growth, assertion, merging and responsiveness to others are destinies they follow.
As a tongue-in-cheek encore, snow globes entice us to play and dream, swiftly leading to wholly individual experiences in their small worlds.
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Franz Josef Altenburg was an artist of great modesty. This attitude defined not only his personality but also his artistic practice. With subtle self-irony and restraint, he preferred to eschew the limelight – not unusually by ironically making himself “small”. It is thus unsurprising that he sought smallness in terms of format too.
From his consistent commitment to utilising all the material, a series of works evolved over the years that he called “die Kleinen” – the little ones. Despite their small size, these works are defined by his characteristic lucid language of form. They impressively demonstrate that true expressiveness does not depend on size.
Cäcilia Putschek
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Loop!
NEVER ENDING is how it emerges, the ring that can only be fashioned by the potter’s hand.
Wheel throwing needs to be mastered, the material has to be familiar and loved if you want to detach the porcelain ring from the lip of a vessel and skilfully shape it with just a few touches. Carefully dried and bisque fired, it only becomes a seductive wearable object when I sand the unfinished piece, put it on my finger, feel where the band may still be too tight, sand it once more, put it on again, sand it, put it back on, sand it again …
But it takes three professional craftspeople before the porcelain ring is fit for every day. It would be too fragile in its original material, in the “white gold”. That is why Udo Santo casts it in silver and Annette Kurz removes the casting burr.
Karin Bablok, ceramist, fine art graduate
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I could not reduce my usually large forms to miniatures. In addition, you tend to look at miniatures from above, and this was what I had in mind with mine. However, I made the first of the forms on show here earlier. Then the exhibition gave the impetus to develop them and move them forward. Aspects that interest and motivate me are the relationships of the parts to each other, proportions and the contrasts of colours or surfaces, such as light and dark, smooth and rough, kneaded and thrown.
Ute Brade, Ammendorf, 07.08.25
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Ich lebe mein Leben …
I live my life in widenig rings,
That spread to cover all things.
The last perhaps I will not achieve,
But I will try before I must leave.
RAINER MARIA RILKE
taken by Roland Held’s article in the catalog Klaus Lehmann/serendipity, 2017
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