June 11 to August 29, 2010
at the MKM Museum Küppersmühle for Modern Art, Duisburg

Abraham David Christian’s work is characterized by the experiences of many journeys and stays in Asia, Africa, Europe and America as well as a deep knowledge of foreign cultures and their forms of expression. The Japanese character for “path” used in the title describes Christian’s way of working: “The path is the goal.”
The works of the two-time documenta participant bear witness to his intensive preoccupation with the cross-cultural wealth of human forms and move on the border between minimalism and sensuality, fragility and impact. In his exhibition at the MKM, Christian presents sculptures made of bronze, plaster and paper as well as drawings in seven rooms.
“The Path” is also a journey of stillness paired with balance, which runs like a common thread through the exhibition and the accompanying catalog, because “when stillness reaches the innermost part of man, the previously hidden opens up to man” (Christian). This is what can be discovered in the new group of monumental bronze sculptures “Hayama_7 : Towers of Wisdom” and the four-ton bronze “Interconnected Sculpture”, which Abraham David Christian worked on for over three years and thus reveals one of his leitmotifs: “What man can dream of, he can also realize.”