Stefan LöffelhardtClouds

Löffelhardt’s book of hanging cloud objects! The book provides an overview of the group of hanging cloud objects (2010–2020) by Stefan Löffelhardt. Within the chronological arc of his work, the cloud objects lie between the large landscape installations in space and the current drawings of inner landscapes. The objects developed out of the walk-in installations by way of the model-like ship sculptures and the hanging constructions of urban landscape, as documented in the catalogues “Blachfeld” (2003), “Löffelhardt” (2008), “Tal Grund/ The Valley Floor” (2009) and “Tisch” (2016). The illustrations follow the objects roughly in the chronological order of their making. Added to these are views from the exhibitions “Fluss,” 2018 at Aurel Scheibler in Berlin, and “Schönheit?!”, curated by Anne-Marie Bonnet in 2019/20 at Gisela Clement in Bonn. In the exhibition “ab8”, 2017 at Galerie Ute Parduhn in Düsseldorf, some of the objects were shown for the first time. In the middle section of the book there is an extract from a conversation between Wolfgang Ullrich and Stefan Löffelhardt that was conducted in 2018 in the context of the „Fluss“ exhibition. The back section contains a number of collages from 2010 which stand in close connection with the hanging objects and express the desire for a clouding of everyday life. A further publication will be devoted to the drawings, which were made in parallel with the cloud objects from 2010 onwards.