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After more than thirty years of collaboration with Stephan Balkenhol, it is a great pleasure to present the artist’s twentieth exhibition at Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle.

Stephan Balkenhol is best-known—aside from his bronze sculptures in public spaces around the world—for his virtuosic wood sculptures worked from a single piece of wood. A chainsaw first gives the trunk a rough outline, then chisel and mallet do the precision work carving out the figures. Finally, a carefully applied layer of paint breathes life into them. Try as you might to catch their glance, they are floating on a different …