Fragment No. 5

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Between Art, Architecture and Science-Fiction, the art of Florian Claar is noteworthy for the approach of geometrical patterns and continuous surfaces, but moreover for the production’s quality of the pieces. We can notice in each of his works the precision and the highly detailed finition that bring those scultpures to reality from the nano scale to the human scale.
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Florian Claar is a German artist, born 1968 in Stuttgart. He studied stage-design, media-art and sculpture at the Stuttgart National University of Fine Arts. Moving to Japan in 1994 he has taught media-art, installation and sculpture at Musashino Art University and Tama Art University . From 2002 to 2006 he taught full-time as assistant-professor for video art and sculpture at California State University Long Beach in California/USA, where he lived for several years. He as given guest-lectures at various universities and art-institutions around the world. His work ranges from stage-like installations and film-projects to land-art installations and large scale public-art pieces. Mayor public-art commissions are at the Kanazawa Museum of the 21th Century (2004), Tokyo Midtown (2006), Morioka Cultural Center (2005), Daan Park Taipei (2010), Hangzhou Grand Canal Project (China / 2011), Nagoya Mode Gakuen (2008), Benesse Building Tama (2014), Taoyuan International Airport (Taiwan / 2014). His exhibition projects include the 2001 Yokohama Triennial, ”Solaris” Artium Fukuoka (2001), ”Recent Excavations” Röntgen Kunstraum (2002) “Solaris – Second Chamber” Weißfeld (Tokyo / 2006), Kobe Biennale (2007), “The Micro-cosmos of Florian Claar” Aomori Museum of Art (2007), “The Vessel-Project Part I – The Flying Dutchman (Yokohama / 2008), “The Vessel-Project Part III – Nostromo (2008), The Vessel-Project Part II – Fafnir at Art Line Project Tamagawa (2008) “The Vessel-Project Part V – Frankenstein und Mahler (OAG House Tokyo / 2010),“The Vessel-Project Part IV – Molly Aida (Hualien, Taiwan / 2011)”