October 23 to November 20, 2005
MKM Museum Küppersmühle for Modern Art

With the exhibition “Between Silence and Strength”, the MKM presents the sculptural world of the sculptor Dietrich Klinge. Central works, some of which are very large-scale, provide an overview of the artist’s impressive bronze sculptures.

Klinge loves the large format and the expressive, almost archaic expression. His sculptures show people in all their formal diversity: full-body figures standing, sitting, lying, crouching, torsos, busts, human body parts. The heads sit like masks on the huge bodies, the faces look like images of deities from another world.

The surface structure is rough and made up of rough cuts, as if wood had been roughly worked with an axe. This impression is deceptive: in reality, it is bronze, a sophisticated technical process that nevertheless impressively appropriates the immediacy and expressive power of wood as a material.