Ewerdt Hilgemann - Imploded Column W07789 / # 180105, 2018
Stainless Steel
24 x 16 x 16 cm
9 x 6 x 6 inch
monogrammed and designated, scratched in on the left side next to the fold at the bottom left by the artist: “H. 18 01 06”
2 labels on the bottom of the base plates: 1. W07789 8 #180105 Ewerdt Hilgemann, Imploded Column, 2018, Stainless Steel 24 x 16 x 16 cm / Ewerdt Hilgemann column, 2018, #180105, stainless steel 16 x 16 x 24 cm
Provenance:
artist's studio
N 9510
Ewerdt Hilgemann - Imploded Column W07789 / # 180105, 2018
Stainless Steel
24 x 16 x 16 cm
9 x 6 x 6 inch
monogrammed and designated, scratched in on the left side next to the fold at the bottom left by the artist: “H. 18 01 06”
2 labels on the bottom of the base plates: 1. W07789 8 #180105 Ewerdt Hilgemann, Imploded Column, 2018, Stainless Steel 24 x 16 x 16 cm / Ewerdt Hilgemann column, 2018, #180105, stainless steel 16 x 16 x 24 cm
Provenance:
artist's studio
N 9510
About the work
Ewerdt Hilgemann’s sculptural method is spectacular, and anyone who has once witnessed such a dramatic spectacle will confirm this. At the beginning of this process is a carefully worked and welded geometric figure of stable stainless steel – in this case a cube, the basic form in Hilgemann’s sculptural work. Connected to a vacuum pump, the air is now withdrawn slowly from the hollow body. It takes a bit of time, but the surfaces increasingly yield and collapse, groaning and moaning. The side edges give way and the immaculate sculpture folds and distorts in a continuing metamorphosis. What still appeared to be the expression of a systematic and constructive artistic attitude is subject to a powerful dynamic due to the effects of the elementary forces of nature, which are inscribed deeply into the sculptural body. Destruction and creation, strict construction and coincidence, rational planning and the free play of physical forces unite in works like these.
“For me”, according to the artist, “real art, old or new, is always a combination of intellect and emotion. Art must have an irrational quality, however rational the methods used to originate them might be.”
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.