As unyielding as the steel is the idea that stands at the beginning of every work of the sculptor Thomas Röthel.
The realization of an imagined form requires that thinking in the material which enables the artist to form and consolidate his sculptures in space by exhausting the manifold material properties. Then Thomas Röthel reaches that moment "when everything comes undone and one gathers oneself anew" - in order to defy gravity with new cuts, new bends and turns.
Almost without exception, the sculptures are formed from solid steel. The original form of all steel works is an individual initial format chosen in a specific ratio of length, width and thickness, which also determines the final proportions. This is worked singularly or, more recently, in pairs and, for another group of works, is initially layered and spot-welded. In the course of the creation process, the steel plates and blocks are bent to a greater or lesser extent, or turned according to conceptually set incisions.
Each completed work follows this extremely reduced and clear language to surprise us again and again with new formulations.
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* 1969 born in Ansbach
1986 - 89 training as a wood sculptor
1992 - 98 Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg with Prof. Hölzinger, class Art and Public Space
1995 Appointment as master student
1991 - 94 Concepts for squares and architectural projects
since 1995 development of steel sculptures
since 1998 freelance work
Exhibitions
1997 joint exhibition in the Art and Exhibition Hall of the FRG, Bonn
2003 Exhibition in the Citrushaus Hofgarten Ansbach
2004 Ansbach Sculpture Mile
2006 3rd Swiss Triennial of Sculpture, Bad Ragaz, CH
2007 art.fair Cologne
2007 art karlsruhe
2007 art bodensee, Dornbirn, CH
2008 art karlsruhe
2008 art bodensee, Dornbirn, CH
2008 presentation of 12 large sculptures in front of the main entrance of the fair in Dornbirn on the occasion of the 8th art bodensee
2008 exhibition Fischerplatz Gallery Ulm
2009 exhibition gallery in Venet-Haus, Neu-Ulm
2009 art karlsruhe
2009 4th Swiss Triennial of Sculpture, Bad Ragaz, CH
2010 exhibition in Schillingsfürst
2010 art award Nuremberg 2010
2010 exhibition gallery in Venet-Haus Neu-Ulm
2011 art karlsruhe
2012 art karlsruhe
2012 5th Swiss Triennial of Sculpture, Bad Ragaz, CH
2012 Heilsbronn, in the cathedral
2012 RHEINGALERIE BONN
2013 sculptures in the landscape park Gut Hohen Luckow and in front of the Kunsthalle Rostock
2014
sculpture tour island Mainau ( DE ) with BEGE galleries Ulm
2015
Castle park Hohen Luckow ( DE ) with BEGE galleries Ulm
Werkhallen, Remagen (DE)
Art Association Bad Nauheim (DE)
Gallery in the Fritz Winter Studio (DE)
6th Swiss Triennial of Sculpture in Bad Ragartz (CH)
2016
Gallery & Art Cabinet Corona Unger, Bremen (DE)
Gallery at Fritz Winter Studio, Munich (DE)
2017
Municipal Gallery in the Castle, Isny (DE), with BEGE Gallery Ulm
Sculpture Mile City of Ansbach (DE)
Gallery in the Fritz Winter Atelier, Munich (DE)
Gallery Bromer, Roggwil, (CH)
Forum 13 at the Künstlerhof Oberndorf Art Gallery Schweinfurt (DE)
