Tobias Stengel

Art as a means of self-expression? This approach holds little interest for Tobias Stengel. He is a researcher. It is not the creation of images that appears to be at the heart of his work – but rather the search for a form of insight through visual means. In the course of his research, Tobias Stengel eventually came across Plato and the regular polyhedra. According to the ancient Greek philosopher, these form the building blocks of the world. In the cube, a special form of these polyhedra, the artist finds his subject of research, his obsession. From the cube, which he unfolds across a plane in infinite variations, Stengel moves on to the crystal, the Golden Ratio, the ‘magic square’ and ‘Islamic patterns’.

Biographical details
Tobias Stengel was born in Grimma in 1959. from 1981 to 1986 he studied at the Dresden University of Fine Arts, since when he has worked as a freelance visual artist. Since 2007 teaching assignments at various universities and vocational colleges, currently artistic assistant at the HfBK Dresden. Tobias Stengel lives and works in Dresden.