Volker Kühn

True to his motto‚ “Just do it!’, Volker Kühn has been making three-dimensional objects: Showcases displaying the miniature worlds of little figures whose interactions tell short stories of good times and bad times in people’s lives. This “art in boxes” comes in small stages like snapshots which provoke amusement and laughter. Thematically, they are inexhaustible. The artist caringly and ironically unmasks stereotypes, and he turns the spotlight on those personal deficiencies which all of us perceive in ourselves and in our fellow men. With a wink and in a very conciliatory way he creates an emotional distance towards our own weaknesses, loves, joys, and striving for success. All his art objects involve the images of human beings, animals and “animate” things, often showing absurdly exaggerated proportions and juxtapositions.

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