Andreas Hamacher

Andreas Hamacher was born in 1967 in Trier / Germany, where he also lives and works. The work on his lyrically abstract work serie "HAPTIKONS" and "DEHISCES" begins at the scrap yards of the region of Trier with its varied technical possibilities.  The scrap yards are a sort of outdoor studio for the steel sculptor. In the course of this, the tension field between the ruggedly repelling and the clearly smooth welcoming of the material is essential to the sculptor. His work is animated through the dialogue between geometry and nature and invite the viewer to feel and explore – to understand – the textures of the material as well the circumscribed space within its own borders and beyond.

 
    Exhibitions (2014 - 2019):

    2019:
    AAf London Battersea, Overhead Gallery
    Art Fair Paris, Overhead Gallery
    AAF London Battersea, Overhead Gallery

    2018:
    Affordable Art Fair Hampstead London
    ART MUC / München
    Art-Nordic / Copenhagen Denmark

    2017:
    Affordable Art Fair / Hamburg
    Luxembourg Art Week, Section Take off
    Salon Du CAL/Luxembourg
    Affordable Art Fair/Battersea autumn/London
    Jahresausstellung der Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst Trier e.V.
    SWR Ausstellung "FINDUNGEN UND FORMATE III" / Trier
    Jahresausstellung der EVBK/Prüm
    ART_MUC, München
    Biennale d'Art contemporain Luxembourg/Strassen
    Affordable Art Fair Brüssel
     
    2016:
    Luxembourg Art Week, section take off
    Affordable Art Fair Hamburg
    Salon du LAC/Luxembourg "(h)art un der Grenz"
    Berliner-Liste
     "Haptikons" Indepedend Art Museum
    Kölner-Liste
     I AM Kunstpreisträger „Independent Art Museum 2016“

     2015:
    Internationales Skulpturen-Symposium „Mosel KM 193“
    Biennale d'Art contemporain Luxembourg/Strassen

    2014-2017, internationale Ausstellungsreihe „ruß´n´rost“ in Kooperation mit Bettina Reichert 

    About:

    It is a well-known and much quoted truism that art and labour have more to do with each other than the casual observer may first think. Particularly when an artist works with heavy-duty materials it becomes apparent they could not have been shaped without physical strength and vigour. Steel is an especially fascinating material. It is characterized by tremendous solidity and tough- ness, yet paradoxically in its molten state can be forged into almost any form conceivable. This versatility makes it popular in industry and the construction trade where it is used for mass produced tubes, sheets and grids or custom-built special machinery.

    It is a well-known and much quoted truism that art and labour have more to do with each other than the casual observer may first think. Particularly when an artist works with heavy-duty materials it becomes apparent they could not have been shaped without physical strength and vigour. Steel is an especially fascinating material. It is characterized by tremendous solidity and tough- ness, yet paradoxically in its molten state can be forged into almost any form conceivable. This versatility makes it popular in industry and the construction trade where it is used for mass produced tubes, sheets and grids or custom-built special machinery.

    The artist‘s material of choice is steel which was once manufactured for use in a functional, usually industrial, environment. He finds these pre-formed objects in the scrapyards of Trier and Luxembourg. Since every item stored there only still exists by dint of its purely material value, its primary purpose long forgotten. Soon it will be melted down again and become something new. Beyond any functional context, these items are the ideal starting point for the materialisation of his artistic visions.