A process of effigies

Art excels in its ability to make the creative process immaculate, intact, at the risk of obscuring the experimentation and the sensitive experience that took place to conceive what is interpreted as the ultimate index of plastic sensation. Some artists make the deliberate choice to make this emulsion visible and materialize a form of incompleteness. This step is constitutive of a moment of material truth: the precise moment when the form touches the instance of pure creation.

Hans Mendler offers a concrete perception of the creative process of the work of art. The materials and shapes here are direct echoes of the artist's studio. His work is thus interpreted as a palette with carnal and lively nuances. Each piece seems to be formed before our eyes to become the witness of an in-process approach. He thus raises a great diversity of faces and bodies with great expressive freedom.

Hans Mendler, German painter and sculptor, was born in 1950 in Neresheim near Stuttgart. He graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart. His works can be found in public spaces (Leipzig, Böblingen, etc.), in municipal collections and in collections of many private art lovers. Participating in many exhibitions, national and international (Singapore, Moscow, Budapest, Majorca, California, Vienna...). He lives and works in Leonberg/Germany and in a village on the Danube in Dunaszekcsö/Hungary.