Icy Water God

In the bold enterprise of search you venture into the sea of dunes. Unadorned dance on sandy ground; holding the balance a failure. Shape and shapelessness, cosmos and chaos - the armour of endurance filled to bursting. Longing for rebirth, knowing, under pain. And yet, merely a phantom, severed and naked. Not without defences: The lethal sting grows in hiding.A sea of drafts is the starting point of a journey through the magical and life asserting creative world of the artist Frank B. Ehemann. The human being is the central subject of his poetic, sensually abstract sculptures. Ehemann reduces man to a spirit both tormented and elevated by all senses and creates in gold and silver those archetypes, which initially irritate when first beheld. The revelation is shock and alleviation at the same time: Ehemann's sculptures tell us about the invisible but always present connection between consciousness and inner voice, a contrivance that leads us to contemplation in crucial situations of life, as the artist himself says.Enigmatically coded figures, broken and accusing at first sight, pinpointing the upright, self-righteous global understanding of blind times on the march, shake their beholder in the first instants of confrontation. Then swiftly he is overcome by the homage to beauty and perishableness. While looking and touching he soon is endangered to loose himself both physically and mentally in them. This is when he feels in his veins the elementary power of his self, perceives the aura of the object as his own, withdraws, pulls himself together and remembers his destiny: Being a human being.It seems as if the artist had created a dynamic, which enables the perception of mental rigidity itself. The ideological immobility of a restless world is the core his figures seek to break up. Thought and wonder - two inseparable things allowing man to consciously experience life. Frank B. Ehemann has made it legible powerfully and sensitively, contemplatively and sensually at the same time.