Stuttgart artist Karl-Heinz Bogner: City as stage, space as power

Artists' studios are sometimes rustic places. They like to celebrate the rough side of art, sacrificing the material to creative excess. Anyone who has seen photos of Francis Bacon's overboard, supposedly never cleaned up studio knows what is meant. But then there are studios like Karl-Heinz Bogner's: Spartan spaces of thought in which the artistic process takes on as much external form as necessary. The results of this process, drawings, sculpt…