Klaus Boesch

Klaus Boesch (, born October 23, 1963) is a sand artist from Vorarlberg in Austria. He is also known as KB The Sandman. and Destillerie Freihof companies, and who had been an artillery<nowiki/>man in the Second World War, and Charlotte Geuze (1928-2005) who was a homemaker.
After Boesch graduated BRG in Dornbirn, he was educated at Lustenau HAK/HAS Business School. From 1982 to 1987, he worked as an office worker at a glazier's workshop. During these years, his creative works were photography and drawing with pencil, ink, tempera and oil. a media experimenter and a good friend of Klaus Boesch, brought him a sand picture from Germany. Boesch instantly recognized the endless creative possibilities of that technique. He immediately quit all other artwork to concentrate on sand pictures,
By February 1988, he opened his studio for sand art called Studio Blue Green (German: Atelier Blau Grün). The first works were done in two sand colors: black and white, which was the standard at that time, white marble sand, which was brought from Carrara, Italy, and natural dark grey sand, which was taken from the Rhein River. To add color, the water was tinted. In the spring of 1988, the technique of making sand pictures was still primitive. Boesch searched for possible improvements and began to discover the secrets of sand pictures with the target, using sand with all colors of the rainbow.
Collaborations
In 2017, Boesch started collaborating with Leiji Matsumoto, a well-known Japanese manga artist who painted a background image for Boesch's sand art, which had a limited edition in 3 sizes and was named Zero'. The background image of Galaxy Zero reminds of the famous futuristic space manga series Space Pirate Captain Harlock, created by Matsumoto in 1977.
The second collaboration was in 2019 with a talented Japanese digital artist, illustrator and photographer, Kagaya Yutaka. Kagaya chose a particular one of his photos, and Boesch created a sand blend with a frame to achieve a harmonic match to the background image.
As a result of this collaborative work, Boesch created three sand pictures.
In April 2019, Mangetsu (full moon); in June 2020, Inori (Amanogawa); and in August 2022, Izayoi, another full moon version. They all have limited editions and are available in Japan only.
Exhibitions
In 1993, Boesch exhibited at the opening of Galerie Boucherie, Uetikon on Zurich Lake in Switzerland. in Japan, “Sensual perspectives” collective exhibition at Agora Gallery in New York (2011), at ArtPrize, Grand Rapids, Michigan (2013), Opening of the ‘KB Sand Art Gallery’ in the China Central Mall, Beijing (2014), Opening exhibition of K11 Art mall in K11 complex, Shanghai (2015).
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