One of his landscape sculptures, Sky Mirror, was commissioned for a garden and combines small ponds, water sculpture, steel sculpture, natural landscapes, and calming geometric shapes. The structure, is in perfect harmony with the garden, dialoguing with its numerous rare flowers and plants. Another imaginative use of reflection may be found in his church door design where a small cross reflects the grassy area in front of the church. The resulting elegant and carefully calculated composition in steel and flowing water can be found in many of his sculpture pieces. The variation in the flow of water, and consequently in the configuration of the water surface, induces a corresponding change in the reflection of the sky and the ambient light, which is particularly mesmerizing. The work catches and re-radiates the changing mood in the nature environment and the passage of the seasons, and in its stillness is dynamic.
Reinhard Blank has located his Spiritual Garden on a hill behind his studio. This piece is a set of four walk-in wooden sculptures connected by a metal walkway, and there we find that his work combines natural strength and spiritual softness; it is rational, minimal and conceptual. Instead of splashing his emotions about, the artist is revealed by the substances he employs – by his recurrent use of materials that can be returned to nature: earth pigment on unprimed canvas, water, and steel. This is not surprising in the son of a farmer with academic art training. Blank always wears a humble smile, whether despite or because of his pursuit of complex philosophical ideas.
More Internet Profiles:
Ø Constant Contact eblast 2 The Substance of Balance in Implicit Strength https://conta.cc/3fDdUqv
Ø Youtube video-Spiritual Garden of four Elements
Ø Reinhard Blank:The Substance of Balance in Implicit Strength
https://ll-greenyes.blogspot.com/2021/03/reinhard-blank.html
Ø Reinhard Blank: Art as Implicit Substance(德國藝術家 Reinhard Blank: 存在中的真實)
https://ll-greenyes.blogspot.com/2019/08/reinhard-blank-art-as-implicit-substance.html
Ø Reinhard Blank 的後花園小屋雕塑- 揭秘這一位德國巴伐利亞的小鎮藝術家
https://ll-greenyes.blogspot.com/2019/01/reinhards-spiritual-garden-bad.html
Ø 德國巴伐利亞地區梅明根市-田園詩般的工業小城 Memmingen, Germany
https://ll-greenyes.blogspot.com/2013/09/memmingen-germany.html
Ø Reinhard Blank: Venice 2019 exhibition preview video link:
Ø Stadtmuseum Memmingen ( to view Reinhard Blank “AusZeit - Art as Clarification at The Memmingen City Museum)
https://zeitmaschine-stadtmuseum-mm.de/de/ausstellungen/sonderausstellungen
Reinhard Blank
Born in Memmingen, Germany.
Lives and works in Thal Atelier, Grönenbach, Germany.
MFA, The Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, Germany.
Selected Awards/Honors
Arts Prize, City Memmingen, Germany.
Special Artist Prize (Küstlersonderpreis), Marktoberdorf, Germany.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Visual Structure Theory - Tractatus of Ludwig Wittgensteins, associated with a lecture about how to reconstruct Tractatus, University of Ulm, Germany.
Aesthetics of Void, Kreuzherrnsaal, Memmingen, Germany.
Poesie der Unterscheidung, Schloss Hohlenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
Selected Group Exhibitions
experiment konkret - Eugen Komringer zum 80, Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt, Germany.
Sammlerkonzepte, Kunstspeicher Museum, Würzburg, Germany.
Selected Public Art/Design
Interpretation from Trinity with Minimalsystemen der Selbstreferenz, Ceiling Design (size 99 m2), Trinity Church, Ravensburg, Germany. Corridor and Worship Room Design for Arche Slowenien, Medvode Slowenien.
Selected Collections
Municipal Cultural Department, Memmingen, Germany. Karl Gerstner, Basel, Switzerland
Selected Publications
Minimalsystem der Selbstreferenz. Malerei im interkulturellen Dialog, Gallery Akzente 2001, Memmingen, Germany.
Essay – Ent-täuschung – Spiritualität in book Spirituelle Erfahrung in philosophischer Perspektive, p. 161-167, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, Germany.
Pedagogy 1991 - 1998
Principal of Schule für Gestaltung, Ravensburg, Germany Course taught: Philosophy of Fine Art
Artist statement
What I am looking for is the simplest forms to comprehend the world. I dedicated most of my time and energy to philosophy. Inspired by Artist Piet Mondrian, Art historian Hans Joachim Albrecht1, and influenced by ‘Structures and dynamics of empirical theories’ of Wolfgang Stegmüller, I have transformed my artwork toward rational and conceptual expression through geometric structures.
At the beginning my work concentrated on the visual presentation of theoretical structures. Later I found that my geometric base vocabulary can be correlated with Earth symbolism; hence I can process my interests (the relationships between the world, the human body, and the mind) into images.
Behind the simple pictorial forms stands a mathematical structure that takes into account width, length, area, volume, proportions, space, mass, weight, an Fibonacci sequence to produce an aesthetic view and effect with implicit and metaphorical statements.
My work is a product of a specific focus on the world that we live in and serves as a mirror for ourselves. In the beginning, we are embedded in a predetermined but unforeseeable background; however, the continued and inevitable interactions reformat and re-shape us.
In my work, I try to develop a harmonious, meditative character inviting self-contemplation. This reveals my innermost concern with consciousness – a seemingly comprehensible, mechanical structure, modified by a transcendence beyond the limits of rationality and hence unknowable.
1. He wrote that the structure of science, that can be elaborated clearly only by math, is too complicated to be transformed by means of geometric structure to visual terms.