Klaus Münch: In Widest Orbit Somewhere

Text in English and Italian

Klaus Münch's work moves in the fertile furrow between sculpture and painting,  analysing the complex relationship between creation and space, between colour and shape.

This volume presents his a selection of his work exhibited in Spoleto, Italy in 2023. The exhibition consists of around fifty works, including large drawings, pvc sheets and semi-transparent and mirrored coloured resin sculptures created between 1987 and 2022, installed in the ground floor spaces of Palazzo Collicola, becomes a voyage through organic and cosmic, artificial and spontaneous, synthetic and bacterial forms of life, an imaginative journey of great strength and fragility at the same time, in which the gaze and the seduction of seeing through represent the subliminal content of the exhibition.

Münch seems to perceive dark omens but also all the richness of these realities with extreme lucidity, with a vein of visionary and post-romantic utopianism typical of those other worlds that only science fiction film writers and directors have been able to imagine. 

Born in Freiburg (1953), Germany, after attending the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara, where he graduated in sculpture, he studied in Munich, specialising in painting. Since then, he has chosen to live and work in Italy.

Includes essays by Marco Tonelli, Ivo Iori and the curator Bruno Corà.