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Klaus Weber @ Herald St

PHOTOGRAPHY /

Courtesy of
Herald St, London
&
The Artist

Installation &
Individual views,
Andy Keate

Klaus' portrait,
Stefan Alber

Quoted text,
Jessica Freeman–Attwood

CREDITS /

June 27, 2017 

2-TIMES  Art
Klaus Weber,
Kugelmensch’ @
Herald St, London 
— 

‘Kugelmensch’:
The rough English 
translation of the 
exhibition title is:
spherical human’ 
– and it plays on 
Aristophanes’ 
assertion that 
primitive human 
beings were 
ball-shaped, 
graced with two 
sets of limbs and 
two faces looking 
opposite ways. 
— 
Kugelmensch’,
refers to a passage 
in Plato’s Symposium 
in which the 
comedic playwright 
Aristophanes 
puts forward a 
humorous account 
of the origins 
of erotic desire. 

The shining 
domestic veneer 
of the brightly 
coloured glass 
orbs gives the 
disarming 
appearance of 
a collection 
of upmarket 
designer lamps, 
concealing 
the entropy 
of 
desire lying 
beneath the 
surface.” 

The exhibition: 
Is Berlin-based 
Weber's 4th with 
Herald St in London, 
presenting an 
‘empathy of forms’ 
– with an emphasis 
on perishable 
elements of nature, 
marking a new steer 
in the artists work, 
departing from 
past exhibitions 
where the vital 
energy of plants
or 
fungus breaks 
through solid 
urban structures. 

2-TIMES' highlights: 
· Snow Woman (Void), 2017
· Mechanics of Youth, 2017 

On view at: 
Herald St 
— 
2 Herald St, 
London E2 6JT, 
United Kingdom. 

Closes: 
July 30, 2017.

and it plays on Aristophanes’ assertion that primitive human beings were ball-shaped, graced with
two sets of limbs and two faces looking opposite