The world is his home

Two titles set the tone : Hunting on Foreign Ground, an exhibition held in Delhi, and The Home is the World, a book which will be published shortly, conceived and written during his residence in India in 2004. Stephan Weitzel is a multi-faceted artist born in Germany but settled in France since 1989.

In close proximity, so far away

Stephan Weitzel’s large-scale drawing Weimar?! Niemandsland (Weimar?! No Man’s Land) proposes via its 20th century architecture a reading of no-man’s-land Weimar’s self-contained history. The myth of Weimar as the German epicentre of intellect and culture has been aurally transmitted in its buildings and interiors.

Words, Wood, Rope, Kings and History

(...) Also in the West Gallery, amongst the profusion of Hubard's kindlings, there is more earnest intent to Stephan Weitzel's drawings which frame visual correlations between the unique High Cross of the early mediaeval Irish Christian church, and later echoes of the plainly male solar symbol of the cross within the circle.