“im Atelier 2”. 1997. Latexballoon, air, artist. 128 x 160cm

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“im Atelier 2”. 1997. Latexballoon, air, artist. 128 x 160cm

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“Samstag Nachmittag, zuhause in Neukölln”.1995. Latexballoon, air, artist. 43x62cm

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“Unterwegs”. 1996. Latexballoon, air, artist, car. 100 x 160cm

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“without title”. 1998. Latexballoon, air, museum. 900x550x650cm

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0066/03. pencil/ giclee print on paper. 42 x 29,7cm

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Berlin-based German artist HANS HEMMERT is concerned by one essential characteristique of sculpture; the redefinition of the space in which it is placed. With subtle but firm perspicacity, his visual investigation into sculptural materials has led him to the uncommon and surprising use of air as a component of his work. Air, latex and the artist himself are the materials used by Hemmert since 1992 for his works with space.

In the large-format slides like “im Atelier 2″, im Atelier 1”, “Samstag Nachmittag, zuhause in Neukölln” or “unterwegs”, the artist is photographed in abstract environments obtained by filling with air a fine membrane of yellow latex inside key places of his everyday life: his home, his car, his studio. Our perception of the space changes: we intuit the objects’ surfaces (the bed, the windows, cables on the floor): the yellow latex that unifies the contours of the whole environment in a unique and smooth surface creates a closed, hermetic space in which the gaze glides without encountering any points d’appui, any visual pauses.

HANS HEMMERT’s sculpture relegates objects beyond the margin, essentializing the space and recreating it in itself. Air thus becomes not only the material but the theme of his sculpture.

“I consider art as an attitude towards life which offers me the chance to explore the world along new paths and look at in another way; to try time and again to reach that state which allows us to discover the crossroads in our habitual path”. by HANS HEMMERT

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source: ANNA CESTELLI GUIDI