Klaus Illi

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Klaus Illi (* 1953 in Stuttgart ) is a German sculptor who has been working with air as the central sculptural material since the early 1990s.

Life

After graduating from high school, Illi was in peace service in Poland and Israel from 1973 to 1974 . He then studied art and German for teaching at the Heidelberg University of Education .

After her legal clerkship and various trips, I studied sculpture at the Stuttgart Art Academy , the Berlin University of the Arts (master class with Rolf Szymanski ) and at the Parsons School of Design in New York City (MFA in Sculpture).

Illi lives and works in Ostfildern near Stuttgart.

Works (selection)

breath

His pneumatic installations allow the room to breathe through the interplay of various objects. The "breathing" objects are supplied with air by a blower through hoses. Pneumatic valves allow air to flow in and out under program control, the object membrane expands convexly by the air supplied, which corresponds to "inhaling" or "breathing", whereupon the pneumatic valve releases the air in the object into the room: The membrane is with corresponding Flow noises are flat again, which is associated with "exhaling".

Catharsis machines

With his catharsis machines, Illi strives for exemplary cleanliness at the exhibition site - these objects are a tongue-in-cheek commentary on the Swabian Kehrwoche, a kind of self-deprecating examination of the Swabian genome.

Agnosia and cataract

White canes feel in the room and use not only touch but also grinding technology and unexpectedly switch from slow, sensitive scanning to a wild mode.

Drawing machines

Illi lets drawing. His devices leave traces or erase them, the scratching machine scrapes paint off the wall and reveals deeper layers.

Collaborations

Illi has been working with Bettina Bürkle on the “Breath” project since 1999 , her project “Wolkenatem” (2014) received a grant from the DA Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst . With Inga Fonar Cocos, several exhibitions in Germany and Israel on the subject of blindness and repression were realized between 2002 and 2006. With Uri Sigal Galkin, joint works, exhibition projects and participations have been created since 1998 in which Galkin's fictional character “Nimrod isch Shalom” (Nimrod - Man of Peace) was made to fly by Illi.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ da-kunsthaus.de: clouds breath of Bettina Bürkle and Klaus Illi. Project grant 2014 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on May 25, 2015) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.da-kunsthaus.de

Literature about Klaus Illi

  • Catalog “Art with Chocolate”, Museum Ritter, 2012, ISBN 978-3-88423-408-2
    • therein: Camilla Bonath-Voelkel: "Bettina Bürkle & Klaus Illi - Frucht der Verheissung", p. 42
  • Catalog Bettina Bürkle - Klaus Illi: "Second Spring", Domino Foundation Reutlingen, 2010
    • therein: Marko Schacher: “Flower Power rules!”, pp. 11-14
  • Catalog "LUFTGARTENLUSTGARTEN", published by Kunstmuseum Heidenheim, 2006, ISBN 3-929935-27-9
    • therein: René Hirner: "Life process and plastic presence"
  • Catalog “The Red Carpet in Myth, Power and Everyday Life”, publisher. Kunstverein KISS Kunst im Schloß Untergröningen e. V., 2005,
    • therein: p. 42 Otto Rothfuss + Margarete Rebmann: "Klaus Illi"
  • Catalog "Plant Breath , Bettina Bürkle + Klaus Illi", Ed. Städtische Galerie Ostfildern, 2003, ISBN 3-929551-14-4 ,
    • therein: Markus Wimmer: "Plant Breath", p. 25
    • therein: Martin Mezger: “Echo and Narcissus in the Garden of Eden”, pp. 31–40
    • therein: Christoph Dohmen: “Raum und Zeit”, pp. 60–61
  • Catalog “Joystick Duett + Katharsismaschine”, Städtische Galerie Bietigheim-Bissingen, 2002, ISBN 3-927877-50-6
    • therein: Markus Wimmer: “Plant Breath”, pp. 10–15, Markus Wimmer: “Breathing, Circulating, Turning”, pp. 28–35
  • Catalog “Salto Naturale”, published by Kunstverein KISS Kunst im Schloß Untergröningen e. V., 2002,
    • therein: Otto Rothfuss + Margarete Rebmann: "Klaus Illi - Atemorchester"
  • Catalog "New", published by the Esslingen district, 2001,
    • therein: Nikolai B. Forstbauer: "New work"
  • Catalog "Klangschatten", published by DG Munich, 2000, ISBN 3-932322-04-5 ,
    • therein: Markus Wimmer: "Klaus Illi - Respiratory", pp. 30–33
  • Catalog "Atem", electric Art 99, publisher electrum Museum der Elektrizität Hamburg, 1999,
    • therein: Anabelle Görgen: “Out of Breath”, pp. 5–11
  • Catalog "It's now or never", DG Munich, 1999, ISBN 3-932322-03-7
    • therein: Markus Wimmer: “Klaus Illi - I breathe therefore I am”, pp. 18-19
  • "Breath - Space" catalog, Bettina Bürkle + Klaus Illi, ed. Hospitalhof Stuttgart , 1995, ISBN 3-929551-96-9
    • therein: Helmut A. Müller: "Breath - Space - Give - Take", pp. 6-13
    • therein: Herbert Jochum: "Ecclesia - Synagoga", pp. 16-19
    • therein: Hans Gercke: “Art as a memorial and a sign of hope”, pp. 26–35
    • therein: Dorothe Sölle: “On Christian anti-Judaism”, pp. 58–59
  • Catalog Klaus Illi "Sculptural Objects", Ostfildern 1993,
    • therein: Dr. Renate Wiehager, Villa Merkel Esslingen “Communication with space. To the sculptural objects by Klaus Illi ",
  • Catalog "Bettina Bürkle + Klaus Illi - Sculptural Objects", Galerie im Heppächer Esslingen, 1991,
    • therein: Otto Rothfuss: "Comments on the work of Bettina Bürkle and klaus Illi"

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SURNAME Illi, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart