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Guests responded enthusiastically to the invitation to the opening of the last exhibition in 2025 and were thrilled by the detailed stories and explanations provided by sculptor Frank Teufel from Tuttlingen. Coming from a family of stonemasons in the fourth generation, his training as a stonemason up to the master craftsman's examination and his studies at the Ulm Academy of Design have given him the right tools and creative skills to develop works in stone in such a filigree style that are unparalleled. Stone, especially marble from Europe, seems to melt under his hands until it reaches a form that ends in maximum lightness. The abstract human being in its diverse relationships with the environment is reduced to a line, each time different and each time exciting for the artist himself and the viewer. It can also be admired in a 3.5-meter-high sculpture on Residenzplatz in Kempten, which adorns the city during the exhibition period.
Larissa Richter, pianist and composer from Munich, has also engaged intensively with the work of artist Frank Teufel. With unusual and rarely performed pieces by Bach, Tan Dun, Einaudi, Pärt, and one of her own compositions, she seemed to breathe life into the sculptures in a soulful way. From perfectly structured to delicately reduced and dynamically designed, the pieces played around the stone. She, too, a master of her craft, had rehearsed all the works anew, thus lending the evening the uniqueness that the sculptures radiate in the rooms of the Stadtstadel. A master class vernissage.
Photographer: Matthias Sienz