January 2nd -2016 - 6 pm - Opening Exhibition- Peter Schwickerath- 8 pm - Concert Misa Criolla - School of Dance - Nationa Ballet
Peter Schwickerath
Easy play with massive steel
Iron and steel are materials commonly associated with industry
and the technical sphere. It was not before the 1920s that they
have been considered as useful for art, and therefore no longer
history and tradition exists in this realm. It is all the more remarkable
that artists have created such a wealth of different expressions
from this material, given the fact that its use requires a high
degree of mechanical skills and the employment of semi-industrial
modes of production. Peter Schwickerath confronts these conditions
with a vengeance and a passion for creation that is clearly
visible in his works. He employs the massive steel almost playfully,
maintaining its specific mass, weight and durability, and yet he endows
it with a puzzling esthetics.
Peter Schwickerath creates an art that avoids any complaisance,
although its shapes are found in a playful process. It does not decorate
anything, but it creates those accents that are necessary
to render a place memorable and interesting. It is an art that takes
industrially produced steel - the material at its disposal – seriously.
With consistent honesty, all its properties and modes of
expression are respected.
Siegfried Gnichwitz