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The preoccupation with material cycles and landscape movements are central moments in the artistic work of Andreas Blank. In a traditional manner, he gathers a variety of rare stones from quarries worldwide and brings out their special qualities through his meticulous sculptural working methods, ultimately creating stylized cultural objects from them.

In the process, Blank questions socially shaped values and attributions of meaning not only through the geographical and cultural identity of the material but also through the motifs he uses. While marble, alabaster, or porphyry was …