Author: Stigter, Antoinette de (ed.)
Title: Ewerdt Hilgemann.
Description: Amsterdam : Art Affairs, 2020. [2nd revised & augmented edition]. Hardcover. 152 pp. Illustrations. 23x24 cm. English & German text. Condition : new. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : new. Contents : Introduction by Antoinette de Sligter - Works 2018-2014 - Park Avenue Project - IExclamation marks on Park Avenue : sculptures by Ewerdt Hilgermann [by] Evert Schoorl; Elemental force [by] Saul Ostrow;- Works 1961-2014 - Chronology -; Biography : bibliography. This beautifully designed book, published on the occasion of the 2020 exhibition of Ewerdt Hilgemann in the Kröller-Muller Museum is an expanded edition of the 2015 book Next to recent works by Hilgemann, it shows the Park Avenue project, as well as an overview of his oeuvre. Hilgemann's bodies of work from the 1960s focused on wall pieces, consisting of wooden dowels, as well as serial and minimalistic installations (Space Structures) out of large resin and steel tubes. In the 1970s, reliefs and mostly wooden abstract geometrical sculptures followed, based on grids as well as the cube. The 1980s meant a change in thinking, when Hilgemann made his first photographic work Random Sculptures (for Herman de Vries), followed by a series of granite boulders e.g. referencing to the (maximum) cube that was inside by cutting away what was needed, yet showing all parts.[6] In 1982, for the first time with an audience, he rolled down hill a perfectly polished marble cube (150x150x150 cm) from the famous Carrara quarry, where already Michelangelo got his marble. The result was a scratched and dented piece, but it still was a cube! Likewise, in 1983 he brought two perfectly polished spheres to explosion, resulting in a carefully calculated number of pieces (3 parts for the white Carrara marble, 9 parts for the dark Bardiglio marble). The same year, during sculpture symposium East-West Forum in Dordrecht, Netherlands he made his first welded steel cube, which he threw down from an abandoned factory. These sculptures and their planned destruction depend to a large extend on random circumstances. However, these can also be premeditated by stipulating their conditions. According to the artist, this equally is the case with his so-called Implosion Sculptures, which Hilgemann started in 1984 and that are still going on. The perfectly welded stainless steel geometrical shapes are vacuumed by a pump (or by means of water), causing the body to slowly give way to the outside pressure, resulting in a new form, yet leaving a visual reference to the original. The most used shapes are cubes, square columns and pyramids. ISBN 9789073985100.

Keywords: ART, sculpture