MAKE. invites artist Axel Anklam for a lecture concluding the Material of the Month: Latex.

MAKE. invites the artist Axel Anklam to lecture about his creative sculptures concluding the current edition of the Material of the Month: Latex.

Axel Anklam just returned from „La Biennale di Venezia“ to tell us all about the what, why and how of his mysterious sculptural works. His material combinations of stainless steel with fiberglass or latex seem to bring unity and contrast together within a single object. The design and proportions of his earlier works were driven by elements of musical harmony. His later works are more characterized by bold colors and a high level of abstraction that remind us of biomorphic structures or large mysterious cocoons.

Lecture and Exhibition

Date: 3.12.2013
Time: 19h00*

Location: Art Campus - Südflügel (1st Floor)

* Material of the Month participants: Please be here 30 min. before, so we can exhibit your experiments/results - thanks!

Biography Axel Anklam
1971
Born in Wriezen (Brandenburg)
1987 - 1990
Trained as artist blacksmith (qualified as master artist blacksmith in 1993)
1996 - 1998
Worked as a restorer at Sanssouci Palace in Potsdam in the employ of the Foundation for Prussian Palaces and Gardens and at the European Centre for the Skills of Architectural Heritage Conservation in Venice
1998 - 2002
Studied sculpture at Burg Giebichenstein College of Art in Halle
2002 - 2004
Studied sculpture at the University of Arts in Berlin
2010
Visiting Professor at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart
2013
Lives and works in Berlin and Bad Freienwalde

Poster design:
Rahel Brochhagen and Franziska Zeller