HUMAN SPIRIT AND MATERIAL REACH OUT THEIR HANDS TO EACH OTHER

Under the title 'human spirit and material reach out their hands to each other', Cengiz Hartmann shows a handful of significant items that enable to dive into his poetic body of work. 

1. By sculpting vases - one of the most ancient topics of sculpting - with three legs, High Vases become real entities.
2. Becoming Human (ASK &EMBLA ) is made of ash and elm wood. Both trees were splitted by hand, hollowed and stitched together. In the northern mythology the first two human were trees, called Ask and Embla.
3. By questioning the cultural behaviour of each having an own single plate, Giant Plates are an invitation to celebrate and share dinner. To initiate relations between people, food and objects is essential for the pieces. Crafted for an experimental diner by Steinbeisser with Jeong Kwan.
4. While refering to the ancient myth, Narcissus deals with current topics. By transforming and combining original materials - water, earth, fire - the inexpressible becomes visible.

Cengiz Hartmann (*1990) is a German artist focussing to reduce objects to the essential without eliminating the poetry. The artist works as a research assistant at Detmolder Schule für Architektur und Innenarchitektur in Germany, is member at Deutscher Werkbund and participated at several international exhibtions.