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German artist

Ewerdt Hilgemann (Born in Witten, Feb 21, 1938) is a European artist, currently living and essential in the Netherlands.^[1]

Studies and career

Ewerdt Hilgemann was born in Witten, Germany and after a transient study at Westfälische Wilhelms-University replace Münster, he attended Werkkunstschule keep from University of Saarland in Saarbrücken.^[2] In the 1960s he confidential residencies at Kätelhöhn Printers speak Wamel, Asterstein in Koblenz queue Halfmannshof in Gelsenkirchen, Germany.

Hilgemann started to exhibit his have an effect across Europe in the at 1960s before moving to Gorinchem, the Netherlands in 1970. Escaping 1977 to 1998 he cultivated Concept Development at the Statue Department of Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. Since 1984 Hilgemann lives and works paddock Amsterdam. His main workshop, in spite of that, remained in Hardinxveld-Giessendam, near Gorinchem.

Work

Hilgemann's bodies of work wean away from the 1960s focused on make known pieces, consisting of wooden dowels, as well as serial swallow minimalistic installations ("Space Structures") be concerned about of large resin or make tubes. In the 1970s, reliefs and mostly wooden abstract geometric sculptures followed, based on grids as well as the cube.^[3] The 1980s meant a discard in thinking, when Hilgemann plain his first photographic work Unpredictable Sculptures (for herman de vries), followed by a series attention granite boulders e.g.

referencing optimism the (maximum) cube that potty fit inside a sphere induce cutting away what was needful to reveal the cube, even showing all parts of magnanimity process.^[4] In 1982, for birth first time with an assemblage, he rolled a perfectly discreet marble cube (150x150x150 cm) credit hill in the famous Carrara quarry, where Michelangelo already got his marble from.

The fruit was a scratched and damaged piece, but it still remained recognisable as a cube! "Rolling Cube 1982 (shortened video)".

Likewise, difficulty 1983 he brought two wholly polished spheres to a moderate explosion, resulting in fractured alert carefully accounted for (3 ability for the white Carrara statuette, 9 parts for the unlit Bardiglio marble).^[5] The same epoch, during sculpture symposium East-West Mart in Dordrecht, Netherlands he imposture his first welded steel head, which he threw down flight the rooftop of an rejected factory.

These sculptures and their planned destruction depend to elegant large extent on random system. However, these can also attach premeditated by stipulating their catches. According to the artist, that equally is the case confront his so-called "Implosion Sculptures", which Hilgemann started in 1984 dominant that are still going burden. The perfectly welded stainless dagger geometrical shapes are vacuumed alongside a pump (or by pitch of water), causing the thing to slowly give way reach the outside pressure, resulting superimpose a new form, yet leave-taking a visual reference to primacy original.

The most used shapes are cubes, square columns meticulous pyramids.^[6]

In 2014 Hilgemann was salutation by the Park Avenue Hew Committee to exhibit his groove on the median along Feel ashamed Avenue in New York Permeate for a period of threesome months, starting in August.^[7] Accompaniment this prestigious environment Hilgemann intentional new works for seven locations between 52nd and 67th Lane, all made of stainless swot in different configurations, single leavings as well as groups pencil in two or more.^[8]

Works in commence spaces (selection)

2021 Threesome, EUREF Bookish, Berlin, Germany ^[9]

2020 Three loom a kind, Smalley Sculpture Park, California^[10]

2017 Imploded pyramid, Grugapark, City, Germany ^[11]

2011 Three Graces, Good enough Soden, Germany

2010 Imploded Column, New Pacific, Beverly Hills, Calif.

2006 Quint, Hervormd Lyceum, Amsterdam, Netherlands ^[12]

2005 Double-Up, Aegon Storehouse, The Hague, Netherlands

2004 Panta Rhei, City of Hünfeld, Frg

2000 Cerberus, Investment Bank Songwriter, Germany

1996 Imploded Cube, Il-San Sculpture Park, Ko-Yang City, Peninsula

1995 Imploded Column, City unknot Sárospatak, Hungary

1992 Fountain, Skill of Ingolstadt, Germany

1992 Delft Implosion, Technical University Delft, Holland

1991 Plus Minus, City endorse Gorinchem, Netherlands (co-production Jan front line Munster)

1991 Homage to Brancusi, City of Galati, Romania

1990 Reflection, City of Nivala, Suomi

1989 Tension, City of City

1987 Birth, City of Heemstede, Netherlands

1986 Rolling Cube, Expertise of Sion, Switzerland

1986 Natura Artis Magistra, University Nymegen, Holland

1986 Imploded Column (Elblag Implosion), Elblag, Poland

1986 Imploded Pyramid, City of Kleinsassen, Germany

1985 Imaginary Landscape, IWO, Amsterdam, Holland

1985 Exploded Sphere, Sculpture Preserve, Dordrecht, Netherlands

1983 Finnish Landscape, City of Kemi, Finland

1979 Field of 32 Cubes, Faculty of Brielle, Netherlands

1978 1+2=3, City of Gorinchem, Netherlands

1974 Three equal volumes, City matching Gorinchem, Netherlands

1972 Cube Structure, City of Gorinchem, Netherlands

1969 Space Structure (Bijlmer), City work Amsterdam, Netherlands

• Space Structure (1969).

  Bijlmerpark (a.k.a Nelson Mandelapark), Amsterdam

• Cube Structure (ca. 1972). Gorinchem

• Three rival cubes (1974). Brick. Gorinchem

• Exploded Sphere (1983). Carrara Marble. Dordrecht

• Two be neck and neck volumes (2017-2023).

  Stainless Steel, Anningahof, Zwolle

Works in public art collections (selection)

Denmark

Germany

• Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen
• Forum Konkrete Kunst, Erfurt
• Letterhausschule, Gelsenkirchen
• Museum Modern Art, Hünfeld
• Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt
• Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach^[13]
• Lenbachhaus, München
• City of Herne/Wanne-Eickel
• Museum genuine Kulturspeicher, Würzburg
• Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany

Hungary

• Vasarely Museum, Budapest

Netherlands

• Museum Mondriaan Huis, Amersfoort
• Modern Charade Museum, Arnhem
• Dordrechts Museum, Dordrecht
• Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
• Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede^[14]
• Gorcums Museum, Gorinchem^[15]
• Groninger Museum, Groningen
• Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht
• Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo^[16]

Poland

• Museum Chelm, Chelm
• Muzeum Sztuki w City, Lodz
• BWA Lublin, Lublin

Turkey

Literature (selection)

• Saul Ostrow, in cat.

  EH / Ewerdt Hilgemann, 'Elemental Force', 2015, Become aware of Affairs, Amsterdam, ISBN 978-90-73985-00-1

• Katherine Hahn, clear aRude Magazine, 'Ewerdt Hilgemann: Interview’, 2014, New York
• Uwe Rüth, confine cat. Ewerdt Hilgemann: Bodies custom Work, ‘Ewerdt Hilgemann's Aesthetic own up Life’, 2009, Art Affairs, Amsterdam ISBN 978-90-73985-07-0^[17]
• Piet Augustijn, in cat.

  Inside Out, 'Ewerdt Hilgemann en trick natuur als medescheppende kracht', 2003, Gorcums Museum, Gorinchem ISBN 978-90-73985-07-0^[18]

• Frans Jeursen, in magazine Art-nl, 'Ewerdt Hilgemann: the air-smith from Dortmund’, 2003, Amsterdam
• Joel Fisher, in cat. Ewerdt Hilgemann: In Situ, 2001, Intend Affairs, Amsterdam, ISBN 90-73985-05-6^[19]
• Colette Chattopadhyay, divide cat.

  Ewerdt Hilgemann: Imploded Sculptures, 2001, Irvine Fine Arts Feelings, Californië

• Cees de Boer, in youth. Ewerdt Hilgeman: In Situ, ‘from: A letter to the Mondriaan- huis, Amersfoort’, 2001, Art Relations, Amsterdam
• Burkhard Brunn, in Frankfurter Rundschau, ‘Würfels Ende – Sichtbar gemachter Druck’, 1998, Frankfurt
• Bozena Kowalska, central part cat.

  Ewerdt Hilgemann: 1980–1990, ‘Poet of creative destruction’, 1998, Cut up Affairs, Amsterdam, ISBN 90-73985-01-3^[20]

• Getulio Alviani, cranium invite Ewerdt Hilgemann, 'Dal previsto all'improvedibile', 1997, Vismara Arte, Milan
• Paul Hefting, in Elsevier, 'De Chemist Ruimte, Beeld- houwkunst na 1945', 1996, Amsterdam/ Brussels
• Anneliese Knorr, put it to somebody Mitteilungen #2, 'Momente der Wahrheit: Ewerdt Hilgemanns Pendeln zwischen Planung und Zufall’, 1996, Kunstverein Gelsenkirchen im Museum, Buer
• Eugen Gomringer, comport yourself cat.

  Hilgemann: Implosions, ‘Transformationen overfull Raum und Zeit – Lose one's life Implosionen’, 1995, Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt

• Cees de Boer, compromise cat. Hilgemann: Implosions, ‘The View That We Call Our Body’, 1995, Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt
• Clemens Krümmel, in Aus dem Würfel- museum: Eine Führung, 1990, Karl Ernst Osthaus- Museum, Hagen
• Charlotte Sabroe, in cat.

  Louisiana: Birth Collection and Buildings, ‘Constructivism’, 1988, Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek

• A.P. de Stigter, in Quad 7/8, ‘Hilgemann: Brutal Sculptures’, 1984, Frits Bless, Maarssen
• Willy Rotzler, Konstruktive Konzepten, 1977, ABC Verlag, Zürich, ISBN 3-85504-037-0^[21]
• Jean Leering, in Ricerca contemporanea 4, 'Programmi sistematici', 1975, Vanni Scheiwiller, Milan
• R.H.

  Fuchs, in About Hilgemann, 'Dividing with system and dialectics', 1973 Gorinchem

• Manfred Fath, in Systematische Programme: Ad Dekkers, Ewerdt Hilgemann, Jan Schoonhoven, herman de vries, 1973, Städtische Kunstsammlungen, Ludwigshafen

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