Harald Klingelhöller - All metaphors come true

Art book, 1997, 192 pages, 177 illustrations, cloth with dust jacket, 30.1 x 23.5 cm. Publisher: Ulrich Wilmes, Lenbachhaus Munich | Since the end of the 1970s, Harald Klingelhöller has been examining the relationships between linguistic formulations and sculptural forms in his sculptures. At the beginning of the 1980s, the focus was on sculptures that can be read as derivatives of linguistic metaphors. They are increasingly followed by sculptural constructions that integrate letters as a formal basis. The letters, mostly linguistic set pieces of the work title, are associated with simple formal volumes and constructive elements that are stacked on top of one another, leaned against one another or against the wall. In the 1990s, the constellations of the elements became more complex and the materials more diverse. Klingelhöller never releases his sculptures, whose work titles are a genuine part of the sculptural form, from their reference to the linguistic formulation: their “visual readability” creates the “fiction” of a “verbalization” (Klingelhöller). This book documents the development of Klingelhöller's work over the past ten years and also contains an illustrated catalog raisonné of the sculptures from 1979 to 1997. About the artist: Harald Klingelhöller *1954 in Mettmann. 1987 Participation in »Sculpture. Projects in Münster«, 1992 at the documenta IX in Kassel. Lives and works in Dusseldorf.