Paul Diestel
Paul Diestel´s sources of inspiration are nature finds: ash-seed, sunflower-seed-shell or privet hawk moth at pupal stage. Fascinated by things in the process of transformation, he tries to replicate them in wood in a new form. For him, the sculptural process is a digging for the essential by removing the nonessential. With the reduction of form, Paul Diestel is also looking for a prototype for all things. This elaborate search for the form is followed by a next, intensive process. Using natural materials such as earth, lime and rabbit glue, he applies several layers to the objects, compacting and polishing them. The bare wood is raw and vulnerable. Through the many layers he encloses his sculptures with a surface that covers the form like a protective skin.
biography
Since 2014 Sculptural techniques acquired under the tutelage of master
sculptor Klaus Metz
Study of Fine Arts at Kunsthochschule Kassel
with Prof. Norbert Radermacher and Prof. Mirjam Thoman
Since 2019 Master student of Prof, Mirjam Thomann and Prof. Jens Brand
lives and works in Unsleben, Germany
Awards
Since 2017 Scholarship of the Cusanuswerk e.V.
2018 Catalog promotion of the Bank for Church and Caritas, Paderborn
2019 Artist in Residence, City Hall for Culture, Lichtensteig, Switzerland
2021 Debütantenförderung des Freistaates Bayern
exhibitions
ECHOS, Museum für Sepulkralkultur, Kassel
Gegenden I Begegnungen, International Artist House Villa Concordia, Bamberg, in Cooperation with writer Gunther Geltinger
Permeabel, Stellwerk Kassel
Kunsthoch45, Cusanuswerk, HFBK Dresden
Samowar, Galerie Coucou, Kassel
Empor, Bank for Church and Caritas, Paderborn
Kunst am Schlossberg, Melchnau, Schweiz
Codex, Regional Council, Kassel
third stone from the sun, Galerie Coucou, Kassel (with Frederick Vidal, Photography)
trio7, Kesselhaus Bamberg
Zukunftsforum Energiewende, Documenta-Halle, Kassel
Samowar, Galerie Coucou, Kassel
Herbarium, Monastery Wechterswinkel
Findling, Artist House Meiningen
Final exhibition, Kunsthochschule Kassel
Erste Fünf, City Hall for Culture, Lichtensteig, Switzerland
Kassel zu Gast in Mönchengladbach, Galerie Löhrl, Mönchengladbach
Herzrasen, BBK-Galerie, Würzburg
Die vier Elemente, Galerie Löhrl, Mönchengladbach
transform, Galerie Löhrl, Mönchengladbach
zeitlos, Freilandmuseum Fladungen
zugewandt, Museum Am Dom, Würzburg
material as matter. Kunstmuseum Erlangen
über uns hinaus. Gottesackerkapelle, Stadtarchiv Crailsheim
Vom Wachsen und Keinem, Wasserburg Haus Graven, Langenfeld
Vom Wachsen und Keinem, Galerie Löhrl, Mönchengladbach
Tierisch, Galerie Löhrl, Mönchengladbach
publications
Paul Diestel - Herbarium, Editor.: Kulturagentur, Landkreis Rhön-Grabfeld, Texts: Dr. Astrid Hedrich-Scherpf, Christine Wehe-Bamberger
Catalogue for the final exam at the Kunsthochschule Kassel, 2019, Editor: Paul Diestel
Gegenden | Begegnungen, 2017, Editor: Nora-Eugenie Gomringer for the International Art House Villa Concordia Bamberg, 2017, Texts: Nora-Eugenie Gomringer, Gunther Geltinger
Paul Diestel, Editor: Paul Diestel, 2018, Text: Gunther Geltinger, 52 pages, Edition: 500
Supported by Bank für Kirche und Caritas, Paderborn