Gunther Gerlach lets us immerse ourselves in the world of sketches and preparatory drawings for his sculptures and installations. The book shows a wide variety of forms in brush and pencil drawings. His prose text "The Secret Place" opens a window into the sculptor's mental spaces and landscapes in a language rich in images.

"Before that grew from the white ashes of ideas,
the multitude of scattered
marked sheets of paper,
like the wings of landed birds,
ready for a handclapping at any moment
could rise
to a floating, ever-snapping form………”
– Gunther Gerlach

About the author:
Gunther Gerlach was born in Neustrelitz/Mecklenburg in 1952. He completed his studies in sculpture in 1975 with Jan Koblasa at the Muthesius University in Kiel. Since then, his sculptural and graphic works have been exhibited in numerous individual and group exhibitions in galleries, museums and art associations at home and abroad. Works can be found in public space as well as in private and municipal ownership. Gunther Gerlach has been teaching at the University of Bremen since 1999. He lives and works in Bremen. A comprehensive artist monograph “Sculpture and Space” was published by Hirmer Verlag in 2013.