Untitled # 4, 1989, Stahl lackiert, 291 x 155 x 122 cm / 116 x 62 x 49”

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Galerie Haasner & SNZ Galleries, Wiesbaden:

FLETCHER BENTON - Skulpturen und Wandobjekte - Ausstellung

vom 7.11. 2008 bis 24.01.2009

In a great exhibition the two German Galleries SNZ and Haasner will jointly display steel sculptures and wall objects by the artist Fletcher Benton. Whereas Gallery Haasner will put the focus on Bentons current sculptures, SNZ Galleries will retrospectively look back on the artist’s oeuvre.

Fletcher Benton belongs to the most influential, contemporary sculptors of the American west coast. He taught more then 30 years at American art academies and carries two honorary doctorates. Since 1979 he received a number of awards, recently together with Arnaldo Pomodoro the renowned 'Lifetime Achievement Award in Contemporary Sculpture' of the International Sculpture centre. Since 1961 works (creations) by Fletcher Benton's are displayed in numerous Museums and important collections.

Coming from the kinetic art of the sixties Benton dwells on the subject of movement, which he explores in all its metaphors by the use of triangle, square and circle, composing them according to the principles of Assemblage. In conformity with the materials being used some of his compositions seem to be frozen in their movement. Others recall through the unstable balance of their industrially fabricated steel parts machines – the idiom of motion.

Archetypes for Fletcher Benton are to be found as well in Russian constructivism as in the Bauhaus. Since Russian Modernism belongs to the main emphases of SNZ Galleries the cooperation with Gallery Haasner, who has represented Fletcher Benton on a regularly basis for more then twenty years was obvious.