Gilbert Bender

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Gilbert Bender (* 1952 in Bielefeld ) is a German artist and radiesthetist .

Life

After training as an advertising clerk, Bender studied free graphics from 1974 to 1978 with Karl-Heinz Meyer at the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences . After completing his studies, he first worked as a freelance illustrator in Cologne, then as an advertising salesman, before becoming a freelance artist in 1981 .

With his mostly large-format pictures, objects and installations, he relates to the human environment.

In addition to intensive collaboration with the painter Hannes Pohle, Darmstadt, and the puppet theater director Dagmar Selje, the aim of his art is to turn the subtle events between art, time and place into a holistic experience for the viewer.

Bender has been working on radiesthesia in collaboration with Harald Walther and Reginald Kress since 1986. He is particularly interested in the interplay between art and radiesthesia.

Main topics

Gilbert Bender has dedicated himself exclusively to artistic work since 1981. Numerous studies of the pantomime Milan Sladek, dance and figure sketches as well as stage sets and large figures for the Bielefeld puppet shows testify to his intense interest in dance theater, pantomime and puppet theater. With Dagmar Selje, the first scene program for adults was created in 1985, followed later by the dream horse productions as a play on three levels (shadow theater, stick puppet and human theater).

Book illustrations (Tableau d'amour, the little king, evening primrose, and much more) as well as the children's comic Nessy and Wolf (over 800 episodes for the Neue Westfälische Zeitung) flow from his pen at the same time.

Numerous art events and trips with the painter Hannes Pohle lead to new impulses for his art.

In 1986 I came into contact with the naturopathic doctor Reginald Kress and the radiesthetist Harald Walther through my own illness. The investigation of possibilities to include the whole person in the artistic process forms an important goal of his work from now on.

In 1994 he met the Welsh artist William Brown, who aroused his enthusiasm for woodcuts and the later steles and wood installations.

In 1995 he took part in an international workshop in Namibia at the invitation of the University of Windhoek . In the same year, an exhibition in the USA and a visit by an artist friend to Oregon triggered his interest in archaic African and Indian symbols, which can be found particularly in the woodcuts of those years.

By working with the sax duo Leptophonics, he comes a little closer to his quest for more intense experience in art. The sight-hearing tour and the sound of the city were the first stations of a radiesthetic work of art.

Summary in chronological order since 1979:

  • Dance and theater images
  • Poetry and children's book illustrations
  • Children's comic Nessy and Wolf
  • Stage design and figure construction for the Bielefeld puppet shows
  • Shadow theater productions with Dagmar Selje
  • Ping-pong / two painters - one picture / with Hannes Pohle, Darmstadt
  • Man and his symbols, woodcuts
  • Homage to Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau / Faust
  • Working with in about wood, painting, wooden objects,
  • The human being as a sense of being - radiesthetic installations
  • City sound and sight-hearing tour with the Leptophonics (sax duo)

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personal data
SURNAME Bender, Gilbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist and radio esthete
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielefeld