Sculpture All Against All by Ottmar Hörl

Sculpture Tous Contre Tous - Everyone against Everyone by Ottmar Hörl

Artist: Ottmar Hörl
Brand: Ottmar Hörl
Color: Charcoal gray
Material: Polyvinyl chloride
Dimensions: H 41 x D 17 x L 23 cm

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Available in a signed version limited to 250 copies per color.

Are you in the line of fire? Do you feel targeted?

This exhibition is an “opening game” (Ottmar Hörl), in which dwarf-like comrades use their little Berettas to target their neighbors and the spectator, because attack is the best form of defense. Especially for small sizes.

In this exhibition, Ottmar Hörl shows how the way we treat each other has changed in our society.

The end of understanding encounters and treatment of “the other” seems to have been reached. Instead, small, self-centered minds dominate and stoke fears. And preferably anonymously and unrecognized.

Is our democracy already in checkmate and has it lost its royal dignity to the benefit of small pawns unleashed blindly?

What does it say about our present when it is thus questioned in the mirror of an exhibition?

And us, the spectators?

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Ottmar Hörl, a multidisciplinary German artist, is internationally recognized for his avant-garde style and his daring to undertake colossal projects. Sculptures, serial sculpture installations, photographs and conceptual objects: its aim is to offer a type of art accessible to all, in particular to democratize sculpture by exhibiting gigantic and radical projects in public spaces.
Today, it is his garden gnome Ben, presented in Cologne for the first time in 2005, which contributes to his great reputation: his installations are regularly exhibited in European capitals.
Passionate about the democratization of art, he uses simple materials like PVC. Very invested in the world of Fine Arts, he was one of the founding members of the Nuremberg Academy in 1999, of which he became president in 2005.
He has been rewarded with numerous prizes awarded for his great creativity and his radical and offensive vision of promoting the democratization of sculpture.
He is also a founding member of the Fomalhaut group in 1985: a design, art and architecture studio where he contributed to the design in collaboration with architects of impressive design pieces such as Living Room : a contemporary residence in the medieval center from Gelnhause in Germany.