Herbert Mehler

Steinau, Germany

The medium of choice is Corten steel. Mehler cuts and folds it into pleated shapes, applying mathematics and technology to produce biomorphic sculptures, allegories of the organised beauty of the natural world.

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Herbert Mehler

Fiamma

2013
156 x 35 x 35 cm

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Herbert Mehler

Cappello

2013
88 x 43 x 43 cm

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Asparago

2008
150 x 36 x 36 cm

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Ermioni

2022
150 x 51 x 51 cm

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Medusa

2020
186 x 76 x 76 cm

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Herbert Mehler

Presipane

2007
55 x 75 x 75 cm

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Fungo

2013
107 x 51 x 51 cm

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Testa

2006
130 x 65 x 65 cm

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Fiore Montgolfiere

2006
Variable Dimensions

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Kilada

2006
150 x 44 x 44 cm

Herbert Mehler

This artist began his artistic endeavors early on in his father’s wood sculpting studio carving rough pieces of wood into figures. Eventually Mehler would settle on his personal artistic language and approach, creating works manually by hand, in a deeply emotional connection between the sculptor and his sculpture. There is an intrinsic need to touch and feel the limits of the iron with his fingers. 
 
Mehler’s geometric constructions, as perfect as they are imperfect, portray the shapes of nature, buds, seeds, pods and leaves, that have captured his imagination. Perfection, he says, is a human aspiration but finds its vocation in imperfection: “Wabi sabi”, the Japanese expression for imperfect beauty.
 
The result are pieces, architectural in form, and simultaneously harmonious and organic, reflecting not just a love of architecture, but structure, order and his mental proximity to nature.
 
Herbert Mehler’s sculptures have been awarded numerous prizes in his native Germany and are a permanent part of many public spaces such as parks and university campuses.
 
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