Bodo Berheide

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Bodo Berheide (* 1944 in Oberhof , Thuringia ) is an artist and sculptor .

Life

Berheide studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Joseph Beuys in the so-called Beuys class from 1972 to 1977 .

Bodo Berheide, 1994

She has been working with drawings , sculptures , objects and performances since 1977 . He focuses on nature and the environment, economy and solidarity . In the same year Berheide co-founded the studio and gallery collective (a gallery for intermedia collaboration). At this time he also started exhibiting at home and abroad.

Since 1992 it has been mainly object-like works made of wood and metal, as well as stamps with figurations and texts, that Berheide has been producing. Often they are embossed objects made from reprocessed newsprint . Berheide lives and works in Wuppertal . The finished work of art is of secondary importance at Berheide, it merely represents one stage to the next, further. More important to him are the work processes between the creation, where the artistic interaction with colleagues and other people takes place. The collective creative transformation takes place in these spaces. Artistic events happen less in galleries, museums or other art spaces, but are possible at any location. That is why setting up a printing workshop in Matagalpa is described as a performance.

Figura Magica

Berheide's main project was created in 1988 with the casting of Figura Magica . It is a 6-ton iron sculpture in the shape of an oversized horseshoe magnet. After three years, she is sent on a world tour from Wuppertal in order to get her magical charge.

The stations are Dublin / Ireland (Goethe-Institut Dublin 1991), Montreal / Canada (Goethe-Institut Montreal, 1993), Bethany , West Virginia , (Bethany College, 1995) and Matagalpa , Nicaragua (1997). Berheide and E. Froeschlin set up a printing workshop there over several years.

In 1999 he went to Santiago de Chile (Goethe-Institut Santiago de Chile) and 2001 to Sydney / Australia (Goethe-Institut Sydney). The sculpture will be part of the Sculpture by the Sea exhibition and will be presented with the Campbelltown Art Gallery (Sydney).

The next stations are in 2003 in Ohmishima / Japan . Also in 2003 there was an exhibition of drawings and objects in the East Asian Society in Tokyo . Another followed in 2005 in the Museum Of Art , Ohmishima, as part of the Germany in Japan project . In 2006 the Figura Magica reached Negombo / Sri Lanka .

In autumn 2007 the trip continued to Lomé in Togo . In October 2009 the sculpture returned home to Wuppertal, to its final location on the forecourt of the theater .

The journey of the sculpture and its "magical charge":

First of all, every sculptor wishes his sculpture to touch many people and that in as many cultural societies as possible - especially since the sculpture points to something that affects us all, on our planet earth, on which we live. Its shape as an oversized horseshoe magnet refers directly to the magnetic field that is created by the rotation of the earth and the dynamo effect of the heavy, glowing, metal, faster rotating earth core. But not only through its shape it points to the center of our planet, but also through its materiality (cast iron) it refers to the place where the soul of the earth can be found. With the mental understanding of these hints, Bodo Berheide would like to show the deep relationship that exists between people, natural forces and our earth and which we are about to let wither.

literature

  • Bodo Berheide: Figura Magica . HP Nacke, Wuppertal 1998, ISBN 3-9806375-3-0 .
  • Bodo Berheide: Figura magica - the circle closed: Bodo Berheide's sculpture travels around the world. Nordpark-Verlag, Wuppertal 2010, ISBN 978-3-935421-64-5 .

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personal data
SURNAME Berheide, Bodo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberhof , Thuringia