Ewerdt Hilgemann

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Cerberus (Berlin, 2000)

Ewerdt Hilgemann (* 1938 in Witten ) is a German - Dutch artist who is best known for his so-called implosions .

Life

From 1958 to 1959 Hilgemann studied at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . From 1959 to 1961 he attended the Werkkunstschule and the Saarland University in Saarbrücken . In 1963 he worked in the Asterstein artists 'estate in Koblenz, and from 1969 to 1970 in the Halfmannshof artists' estate in Gelsenkirchen. Between 1964 and 1967 Hilgemann received grants and prizes from the Aldegrever Society, Münster, the Fritz Berg Foundation, Hagen, and the city of Gelsenkirchen. In 1970 Hilgemann moved to Gorinchem in the Netherlands. From 1975 to 1984 Hilgemann also had a studio in Carrara . From 1977 to 1998 Hilgemann was a lecturer at the Willem de Kooning Academie in Rotterdam . He has lived in Amsterdam since 1984 and has his studio in Hardinxveld-Giessendam near Gorinchem.

From 1974 to 1989 Hilgemann was a member of the artist group international working group for constructive design .

In New York City in 2014 Hilgemann exhibited a series of seven monumental sculptures along Park Avenue under the auspices of The Fund for Park Avenue Sculpture Committee and NYC Parks .

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Hilgemann's works from the 1960s and 1970s are characterized by serial minimalist installations made of rods or tubes (“Space Structures”) made of polyester or steel, by abstract-geometric wooden sculptures that mostly emerge from the cube, and by reliefs made of many small wooden rods . 1981 began to show a turning point in Hilgemann's work: Hilgemann cut a granite boulder into four sharp-edged segments or cut six side parts from a marble ball in straight cuts so that a perfect cube remained. In 1982 he rolled a head-high marble cube, which he had meticulously polished beforehand, down a marble quarry in the famous Carrara quarries , from which Michelangelo had already obtained his marble. Apart from scratches and fogged corners and edges, the cube remained intact. In similar art actions in 1983 he deliberately exploded a ball made of Carrara marble with a diameter of one meter or hit a welded steel cube from the roof of a high-rise building on the Oost-West Forum , Dordrecht .

The quality of the sculptures, to which this type of planned destruction leads, depends heavily on chance, but can also be controlled in a certain way. According to the artist, this also applies to the so-called "implosions" that Hilgemann found in 1984. Using a vacuum pump, it gradually pumps out the air (or even the water) in the interior from airtight, welded stainless steel hollow bodies. The air pressure in the area then causes the cubes, cuboids and pyramids to fold up in such a way that they then look as if they had been demolished by an enormous external force.

Works in public space (selection)

  • 2017 Imploded pyramid , Grugapark, Essen, Germany
  • 2014 Imploded Cube , Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands
  • 2014 Imploded Cube , Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany
  • 2011 Three Graces , Bad Soden, Germany
  • 2011 Imploded Column (Flamingo) , Elgiz Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
  • 2010 Imploded Column , New Pacific, Beverly Hills, California, United States
  • 2006 Quint , Hervormd Lyceum Zuid, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 2005 Double-Up , Aegon Collection, The Hague, Netherlands
  • 2004 Panta Rhei , Hünfeld, Germany
  • 2000 Cerberus , Investment Bank Berlin, Germany
  • 1996 Imploded Cube , Il-San Sculpture Park, Ko-Yang City, Korea
  • 1995 Imploded Column , Sárospatak, Hungary
  • 1992 Fountain , Ingolstadt, Germany
  • 1992 Delft Implosion , Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
  • 1991 Omagiu lui Brancusi (Homage to Brancusi) , 4th National Sculpting Metal Camp 1991, Galati, Romania (The sculpture, which was deposited in Romania on the Danube bank in 1991, is to be erected in 2018)
  • 1991 Plus Minus , Gorinchem, Netherlands (joint project with Jan van Munster)
  • 1990 Reflection , Nivalla, Finland
  • 1989 Tension , Rotterdam, Netherlands
  • 1987 Birth , Heemstede, The Netherlands
  • 1966 Rolling Cube , Sion, Switzerland
  • 1986 Natura Artis Magistra , University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
  • 1986 Imploded Column (Elblag Implosion) , Elblag, Poland
  • 1986 Imploded Pyramid , Kleinsassen, Germany
  • 1985 Imaginary Landscape , IWO, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 1985 Exploded Sphere , Sculpture Park, Dordrecht, The Netherlands
  • 1983 Finnish Landscapes , Kemi, Finland
  • 1982 Boulder in Halves , Museum of Modern Art, Arnhem, The Netherlands
  • 1979 Field of 32 Cubes , Brielle, The Netherlands
  • 1978 1 + 2 = 3 , Gorinchem, Netherlands
  • 1974 Three equal volumes , Gorinchem, Netherlands
  • 1972 Cube Structure , Gorinchem, The Netherlands
  • 1969 Space Structure (Bijlmer) , Amsterdam, Netherlands

  • Spatial Structure (1969). Steel. Bijlmerpark, Amsterdam

  • Cube structure (around 1972). Gorinchem

  • Three equal volumes (1974). Brick. Gorinchem

  • Exploded Sphere (1983). Carrara marble. Dordrecht

  • Imploded pyramid (2017). Grugapark , Essen

Works in public collections (selection)

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Denmark
Germany
Korea
  • Il-San Sculpture Park, Ko-Yang City
Netherlands
  • Mondriaan Huis Museum, Amersfoort
  • Dordrechts Museum, Dordrecht
  • Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede
  • Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
  • Gorcums Museum, Gorinchem
  • Groninger Museum, Groningen
  • Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht
Hungary
  • Vasarely Museum, Budapest
Poland
  • Museum Chelm, Chelm
  • Muzeum Sztuki w Lodz, Lodz
  • BWA Lublin, Lublin

literature

  • Saul Ostrow, in cat. EH / Ewerdt Hilgemann , 'Elemental Force', 2015, Art Affairs, Amsterdam, ISBN 978-90-73985-00-1
  • Katherine Hahn, in aRude Magazine , 'Ewerdt Hilgemann: Interview', 2014, New York
  • Uwe Rüth, in cat. Ewerdt Hilgemann: Bodies of Work , 'Ewerdt Hilgemann's Aesthetic of Life', 2009, Art Affairs, Amsterdam ISBN 978-90-73985-07-0 [16]
  • Piet Augustijn, in cat. Inside Out , 'Ewerdt Hilgemann en de natuur als medescheppende kracht', 2003, Gorcums Museum, Gorinchem ISBN 978-90-73985-07-0 [17]
  • Frans Jeursen, in magazine Art-nl , 'Ewerdt Hilgemann: the air-smith from Dortmund', 2003, Amsterdam
  • Joel Fisher, in cat. Ewerdt Hilgemann: In Situ, 2001 , Art Affairs, Amsterdam, ISBN 90-73985-05-6 [18]
  • Colette Chattopadhyay, in cat. Ewerdt Hilgemann: Imploded Sculptures , 2001, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Californië
  • Cees de Boer, in cat. Ewerdt Hilgeman: In Situ , 'from: A letter to the Mondriaanhuis, Amersfoort', 2001, Art Affairs, Amsterdam
  • Burkhard Brunn, in Frankfurter Rundschau , 'End of the Cube - Visible Print', 1998, Frankfurt
  • Bozena Kowalska, in cat. Ewerdt Hilgemann: 1980-1990 , 'Poet of creative destruction', 1998, Art Affairs, Amsterdam, ISBN 90-73985-01-3 [19]
  • Getulio Alviani, in invite Ewerdt Hilgemann , 'Dal previsto all'imprevedibile', 1997, Vismara Arte, Milaan
  • Paul Hefting, in Elsevier , 'De Eigen Ruimte, Beeldhouwkunst na 1945', 1996, Amsterdam / Brussel
  • Anneliese Knorr, in Mitteilungen # 2 , 'Moments of Truth: Ewerdt Hilgemann's commuting between planning and chance', 1996, Kunstverein Gelsenkirchen im Museum, Buer
  • Eugen Gomringer, in cat. Hilgemann: Implosions , 'Transformations in Space and Time - The Implosions', 1995, Museum for Concrete Art, Ingolstadt
  • Cees de Boer, in cat. Hilgemann: Implosions , 'The Landscape That We Call Our Body', 1995, Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt
  • Clemens Krümmel, in From the Cube Museum: A Tour , 1990, Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum, Hagen
  • Charlotte Sabroe, in cat. Louisiana: The Collection and Buildings , 'Constructivism', 1988, Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek
  • AP de Stierter, in Quad 7/8 , 'Hilgemann: Brutal Sculptures', 1984, Frits Bless, Maarssen
  • Willy Rotzler, Constructive Concepts , 1977, ABC Verlag, Zurich, ISBN 3-85504-037-0 [20]
  • Jean Leering, in Ricerca contemporanea 4 , 'Programmi sistematici', 1975, Vanni Scheiwiller, Milaan
  • RH Fuchs, in About Hilgemann , 'Dividing with system and dialectics', 1973 Gorinchem
  • Manfred Fath, in Systematic Programs: Ad Dekkers, Ewerdt Hilgemann, Jan Schoonhoven, herman de vries , 1973, Städtische Kunstsammlungen, Ludwigshafen

Web links

Commons : Ewerdt Hilgemann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography and exhibition directory of Ewerdt Hilgemann at Art Galerie Scheel
  2. ↑ international working group for constructive design
  3. ^ Hilgemann Park Ave Project
  4. ↑ Implosion Ewerdt Hilgemann Cube (video of the implosion of the cube for the Kröller-Müller Museum on November 21, 2014, YouTube)
  5. ↑ Essen Grugapark receives new large-scale sculpture , Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung of October 26, 2017
  6. ↑ https://www.viata-libera.ro/politica-administratie/102077-avem-proiectant-pentru-amplasarea-sculpturii-omagiu-lui-brancusi
personal data
SURNAME Hilgemann, Ewerdt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Dutch artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Witten