About the work
This sculpture does not present itself as slender and graceful, like otherwise so often in Ewerdt Hilgemann’s work, but instead as powerful and stable, compact and stout, buckled and convoluted. The basic modules of the tripled cube are still clearly recognisable despite the deformations, but the manufacturing process, with its many folds and buckles, has left unmistakable traces, which lend the work from 2010 a special power of expression.
Here, the play of the light on the stainless steel becomes an indispensable partner: bright reflections, shimmering surfaces and dark depressions emphasise the extensive puckering of the sculpture and contribute to enlivening its language of form. That his steel sculptures include the environment, reflect the blue of the sky and the green of the grass on which they stand is especially important to the artist.
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.
