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Stefan Wewerka H+D Türen, Eckstühle, Abendmahl |
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EL SOURDOG HEX will display selected works of Stefan Wewerka (born 1928, Magdeburg) from May 7 to June 30, 2007. Stefan Wewerka's works span a half century and include nearly all artistic media and forms of expression. Wewerka became known in the early 1960s as an object artist. He is an architect, designer, fashion designer, performance artist, film maker, graphic artist and painter. He planned and built in the 1950s and 60s before "he turned away in disillusionment from the technocratic mechanism of the construction bureaucracy and planning departments". He designed books, manufactured jewelry, created furniture, painted pictures and made sketches. Wewerka occupied himself with chair sculptures and alienations of everyday objects. "In the object-sculpturing phase of the cut up, distorted, over-stretched or bent everyday objects, the sketch and drawing always have equal rights next to the product, as a pre-study or variant or as free work on paper (…)". Volker Fischer, Surface and Space - The Thinking Hand, Stuttgart, London 1998. "Architecture never let go of him: He intensively sketched architectural designs using the artistic techniques of collage and alienation. Architectonic thinking remained a cornerstone of his work. Architecture is rather lively in the kaleidoscope of all his work, whose architectonic-urban construction aspects take shape and formulate again and again anew, in concrete building tasks such as in free projects and a multitude of passing ideas (…). His work is fickle and insistent, spontaneous and meaningful. Architecture and internal architecture, design and sculpture, graphic arts and painting overlay and beget each other; his designs develop from their mutual insight," write Andrea Gleiniger and Volker Fischer in Stefan Wewerka's "World Views and Pictures of the World". The Du-Mont-Art Encyclopedia finds that, "In Wewerka's art, the moment of irony combines with perfect elegance". He describes himself as a long-term processor (FAZ magazine, 1986). Wewerka comes from a traditional artist's family. The Bohemian artist family is said to go back to the 16th/17th century. They worked as ceramic artists and stonemasons.
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