Cordial invitation to the opening of the exhibition 'Peter Schwickerath. Tuesday, 9th July at 7 pm. The artist will be present. The theme of his works is the relationship between mass and space and the effect of surface as the boundary of the body and its direction in space.
Schwickerath is particularly interested in the variety of possibilities in formal simplicity and rigour. He shows a very obvious thematisation of the sculptural material, which is preferably steel. In Schwickerath's works, this massive and compact material appears both light and elegant, playful and wilful - the artist often folds, bends or cuts it out of a single piece, seemingly effortlessly.
And yet the works retain the familiar character of industrial production. The artist's sculptures are characterized by the preservation of sculptural tradition while using the most elementary formal means.
His composition is never intuitive, it is precisely comprehensible. Gregor Jansen writes so aptly: "In that Schwickerath's sculptures have no relationship to things or forms outside themselves, they are to be understood as concrete sculptures and are simply what they represent.
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