About the work
Colour is hardly ever still found in the current work of Ewerdt Hilgemann. While the older Implosions are sometimes still made of rusting Corten steel, come with electrolytic colouring, paint and polished surfaces or are even refined with bright gold coating, the most recent sculptures are almost exclusively produced of stainless steel. The material unfolds its aesthetic effect in a gentle shimmer on the variously illuminated surfaces and in this way underlines the organic deformation of the strict, classic-constructive original object.
Also corresponding with the artistic reserve in the selection of the material in the Half Cubes series of works is the extremely frugal utilisation of the means of expression. While the basic form of the cube otherwise remains mostly untouched, a single cube is divided in two here, which reduces its depth and makes it a wall object.
Text authored and provided by Dr. Doris Hansmann, Art historian
Studies of art history, theater, film and television, English and Romance Languages at the University of Cologne, doctorated in 1994. Research assistant at the Art Museum Düsseldorf. Lecturer and project manager at Wienand Verlag, Cologne. Freelance work as an author, editor and book producer for publishers and museums in Germany and abroad. From 2011 chief editor at Wienand Verlag, from 2019 to 2021 senior editor at DCV, Dr. Cantz’sche Verlagsgesellschaft, Berlin. Numerous publications on the art of the 20th and 21st centuries.
