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 | Age: | 57 | | Location: | Wietmarschen-Lohne, Niedersachsen, Germany | | Website: | http://www.wacmac.com
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| | About artist: | Statement on geometric art
I find the expressive power of basic geometric shapes compelling. I am
struck by the great diversity of aesthetic intentions these simple forms
have served across time and place. My attraction to geometric form is longstanding. I
was drawn to the geometric markings that our early
ancestors made on rocks and in caves, and to the geometric patterns
that embellish both natural and man-made objects long before I came
to admire the art of De Stijl or Constructivism.
In the paintings from my ongoing Grafimathematica series, I limit myself to rectilinear forms
—primarily squares and rectangles. To maximize compositional legibility and encourage
the viewer to focus on the relations among forms and colors, each shape is painted a
single hue in a hard-edged, uninflected manner. With each painting, I rediscover the great
freedom and directness of expression that are possible through restricted formal means.
Opposition and contrast are central to my work. I construct
rectilinear shapes from an underlying grid of small, same-sized
squares. These squares become my smallest compositional
units and all other shapes are proportionally related to them.
The square is reiterated and reinforced by the square shape of my
canvas. Thus I deliberately begin with a form and format whose
hallmarks are symmetry and stability. As my compositional explorations
begin, I look for novel ways to counter and subvert these qualities.
Working intuitively with contrasts of color and form, I strive for
compositions that are highly asymmetrical and dynamically balanced.
Evidence of the grid typically survives only as isolated clusters of small
squares. Order and stability are challenged as changing networks of
relations appear and subside in the viewer's awareness.
| | About art: | Hendrik’s Art Statement 2008
My artistic expression is my way of vomiting the mental debris that accumulates in my conscious and my subconscious. My work springs forth from my subconscious. I do not know what my artworks will be before they begin to become what they are. Rather than a deliberate idea which is executed with forethought and preparation, my works are born. My work is spontaneous, not thought out beforehand. Occasionally I will base a work on an idea, but the artwork will always take its own road. My hand and arm are an instrument being controlled by the idea being born ... The art controls me, I do not control it.
It has a will of its own. It’s a thing giving birth to itself, flowing on free will out of the brain.
Only when I begin to visualize what is being born, only then will I begin to exercise some deliberate control and manipulation in its creation. This is the time when I must draw upon my discipline because I am in danger of becoming bored with the work. Once I know what it is, the execution of the work is far less interesting to me. The surprises are over. It then becomes a labor to complete. Going through the motions necessary to complete the artwork is a bore ... It is during this stage that I run the risk of casting the piece aside to begin a new one. I become frustrated with the time it takes to finish, and sometimes I won’t finish. It is only through self-discipline that I do complete most of my art works.
Wanted Visions
All I truly want in this life is to harness the visions which I constantly see. I do this by drawing them. I capture and confine them to the canvas, screen or paper. Of the millions of images which pass through my mind, I can only hope to capture a few. This is my exquisitely frustrating race against time. This is my reason for living ... the only justification for my existence. Other than this thing that I can do, I am nothing more than a parasite, existing for the sake of existence. |
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