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Imploded Column (Dancer)

Imploded Column (Dancer), 2010

Ewerdt Hilgemann (1938- )

Stainless Steel

Fine Art Ordinance Obligation

Ewerdt Hilgemann, a German artist who lives and works in the Netherlands, has been making his "implosion sculptures" since 1984. Always working with a geometric vocabulary, Hilgemann builds simple, hollow three-dimensional shapes - usually rectangular - and pulls the air out of them, causing them to collapse into themselves. The crumpled boxes take on a new expressivity, even pathos. They have become less monumental and more vulnerable, and even seem human.


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