ROBIN HORSCH | HORSCHFIGUREN

Exhibition Sep. 3 - Oct. 2, 2004
Exhibition for bookrelease June 1-8, 2005

The retrospective compilation in this book is the attempt to present and to explain the art of sculptor and painter Robin Horsch - an exemplary compilation, which takes the recent years' development of the artist into account, to give a current insight to the art position of Robin Horsch. This monography appears at a time, when Horsch (born 1963) is in transition from the so-called young artist to the older and "mature" artist. So he is old enough, to express his personality by means of the selected materials in a precise manner - yet young enough, not to rest on his laurels. In this way our book is now a welcome stocktaking of the oeuvre of Robin Horsch.
One can recognize "a Horsch" at first sight. Horsch is artistically a loner, who persistently finds his own way, who also found his own style, and who is not always harping on a once found position, until it loses its strength. Horsch is at the same time painter and sculptor, oppositional disciplines in art history, which he easily unites in his works. We will see, that in both arts Horsch works using the technique of both, and in this way he softens the natural borders between the two arts. Horsch had begun as a painter, before he progressively changed to sculpturing, an art which, in his eyes, is closer to nature. Perhaps it is here where we can find an important and pervasive motive in his art: Nature forms inspire him, he works with things found in nature, in dialogue with nature he develops his art, an aesthetic world as an analogous form to nature.