Joachim Jurgelucks | sculptor

Born 1979 in Paderborn

lives and works in Melle near Osnabrück

With Joachim Jurgelucks, LAING Gallery not only represents a very young artist, but also an autodidact who is developing steadily and convincingly for far more than a decade.

Jurgelucks is dealing with the material wood since childhood and is constantly developing his handicraft skills. In 2005 he begins his freelance artistic career with raw, wooden figurative sculptures made of wood, which testify to his intuitive and manual skills in working with the material.

Today Jurgelucks contrasts the imperfect form of his earlier “changeable sculptures” with minimalist sculptures of cool elegance that are sensually comprehensible.

Reduction, clarity and simplicity characterize the works of art in the field of tension between volume and emptiness. In order to direct the focus on the form, not the material, he applies up to twenty glazed layers to give the sculptures their particularly fine feel of the monochrome, silk-matt surfaces.

Jurgelucks’ reduced steel sculptures, on the other hand, seem like lines in space. “It fascinates me that a single stroke can change everything.”