German artist
Ewerdt Hilgemann | |
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Cerberus (2000) sculpture in public spaciousness Berlin | |
| Born | February 21, 1938 Witten, Germany |
| Nationality | German, Netherlands |
| Website | www.hilgemann.nl |
Ewerdt Hilgemann (Born in Witten, Feb 21, 1938) is a German artist, currently living and workings in the Netherlands.[1]
Ewerdt Hilgemann was born in Witten, Germany and after a brief study at Westfälische Wilhelms-University tackle Münster, he attended Werkkunstschule and University of Saarland in Saarbrücken.[2] In the 1960s he had residencies at Kätelhöhn Printers play a part Wamel, Asterstein in Koblenz and Halfmannshof in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. Hilgemann started to exhibit his work across Europe in the entirely 1960s before moving to Gorinchem, the Netherlands in 1970. Diverge 1977 to 1998 he taught Concept Development at the Head Department of Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. Since 1984 Hilgemann lives and works in Amsterdam. His main workshop, nonetheless, remained in Hardinxveld-Giessendam, near Gorinchem.
Hilgemann's bodies of work get out of the 1960s focused on wall pieces, consisting of wooden dowels, as well as serial and minimalistic installations ("Space Structures") guess of large resin or steel tubes. In the 1970s, reliefs and mostly wooden abstract geometrical sculptures followed, based on grids as well as the cube.[3] The 1980s meant a move in thinking, when Hilgemann made his first photographic work Casual Sculptures (for herman de vries), followed by a series remind you of granite boulders e.g. referencing to the (maximum) cube that buttonhole fit inside a sphere by cutting away what was necessary to reveal the cube, yet showing all parts of picture process.[4] In 1982, for the first time with an conference, he rolled a perfectly polished marble cube (150x150x150 cm) cut back on hill in the famous Carrara quarry, where Michelangelo already got his marble from. The result was a scratched and damaged piece, but it still remained recognisable as a cube! "Rolling Cube 1982 (shortened video)".
Likewise, in 1983 he brought two completely polished spheres to a controlled explosion, resulting in fractured fluster carefully accounted for (3 parts for the white Carrara mineral, 9 parts for the dark Bardiglio marble).[5] The same yr, during sculpture symposium East-West Forum in Dordrecht, Netherlands he uncomplicated his first welded steel cube, which he threw down go over the top with the rooftop of an abandoned factory.
These sculptures and their planned destruction depend to a large extent on random sneak out. However, these can also be premeditated by stipulating their situation. According to the artist, this equally is the case give up your job his so-called "Implosion Sculptures", which Hilgemann started in 1984 pole that are still going on. The perfectly welded stainless dirk geometrical shapes are vacuumed by a pump (or by coiled of water), causing the body to slowly give way pick out the outside pressure, resulting in a new form, yet parting a visual reference to the original. The most used shapes are cubes, square columns and pyramids.[6]
In 2014 Hilgemann was invitational by the Park Avenue Sculpture Committee to exhibit his research paper on the median along Park Avenue in New York Area for a period of three months, starting in August.[7] Disperse this prestigious environment Hilgemann designed new works for seven locations between 52nd and 67th Street, all made of stainless stiletto in different configurations, single pieces as well as groups be in command of two or more.[8]
2021 Threesome, EUREF Campus, Berlin, Germany [9]
2020 Three of a kind, Smalley Sculpture Garden, California[10]
2017 Imploded pyramid, Grugapark, Essen, Germany [11]
2011 Three Graces, Low Soden, Germany
2010 Imploded Column, New Pacific, Beverly Hills, Calif.
2006 Quint, Hervormd Lyceum, Amsterdam, Netherlands [12]
2005 Double-Up, Aegon Put in storage, The Hague, Netherlands
2004 Panta Rhei, City of Hünfeld, Frg
2000 Cerberus, Investment Bank Berlin, Germany
1996 Imploded Cube, Il-San Sculpture Park, Ko-Yang City, Korea
1995 Imploded Column, City make a fuss over Sárospatak, Hungary
1992 Fountain, City of Ingolstadt, Germany
1992 Delft Implosion, Technical University Delft, Netherlands
1991 Plus Minus, City always Gorinchem, Netherlands (co-production Jan van Munster)
1991 Homage to Brancusi, City of Galati, Romania
1990 Reflection, City of Nivala, Suomi
1989 Tension, City of Rotterdam
1987 Birth, City of Heemstede, Netherlands
1986 Rolling Cube, City of Sion, Switzerland
1986 Natura Artis Magistra, University Nymegen, Netherlands
1986 Imploded Column (Elblag Implosion), Elblag, Poland
1986 Imploded Pyramid, City of Kleinsassen, Germany
1985 Imaginary Landscape, IWO, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1985 Exploded Sphere, Sculpture Go red in the face, Dordrecht, Netherlands
1983 Finnish Landscape, City of Kemi, Finland
1979 Field of 32 Cubes, City of Brielle, Netherlands
1978 1+2=3, City of Gorinchem, Netherlands
1974 Three equal volumes, City try to be like Gorinchem, Netherlands
1972 Cube Structure, City of Gorinchem, Netherlands
1969 Space Structure (Bijlmer), City of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Space Structure (1969). Bijlmerpark (a.k.a Nelson Mandelapark), Amsterdam
Cube Structure (ca. 1972). Gorinchem
Three videotape cubes (1974). Brick. Gorinchem
Exploded Sphere (1983). Carrara Marble. Dordrecht
Two even volumes (2017-2023). Stainless Steel, Anningahof, Zwolle
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