Sculptures by Günter Haese in Galería Elvira González
21/04/2019.
Exhibition. [MAD] Spain 10.04 > 01.06.2019
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From April 10 to June 1 2019, Galería Elvira González will be displaying a selection of sculptures by German artist Günter Haese (Kiel 1924 - Düsseldorf 2016) made over four decades. This is the third exhibition of Günter Haese in the gallery.
Haese obsessively explored the beauty of the forms in nature and the way they connect, creating a very personal aesthetic universe that facilitated the path to their understanding.
Haese obsessively explored the beauty of the forms in nature and the way they connect, creating a very personal aesthetic universe that facilitated the path to their understanding.
Installation view: Günter Haese, Sculptures. Image courtesy of Galería Elvira González.
"Boreas" by Günter Haese, 1980. Brass and phosphorous bronze. 19 1/4 x 11 3/4 x 7 in. Image courtesy of Galería Elvira González.
"Konvent" by Günter Haese, 1977. Brass, phosphorous bronze and dark brown matte varnish. 20 x 12 3/4 x 2 1/2 in. Image courtesy of Galería Elvira González.
"Chronos" by Günter Haese, 2004. Brass and phosphorous bronze. 24 3/8 x 18 1/2 x 6 1/4 in. Image courtesy of Galería Elvira González.
Installation view: Günter Haese, Sculptures. Image courtesy of Galería Elvira González.
Installation view: Günter Haese, Sculptures. Image courtesy of Galería Elvira González.
Installation view: Günter Haese, Sculptures. Image courtesy of Galería Elvira González.
"Tagetes" by Günter Haese, 1983. Brass and phosphorous bronze. 6 3/4 x 7 1/2 x 7 in. Image courtesy of Galería Elvira González.
"Stele II" by Günter Haese, 1985. Brass, phosphorous bronze and matte varnish. 35 x 2 1/2 x 2 3/4 in. Image courtesy of Galería Elvira González.
Installation view: Günter Haese, Sculptures. Image courtesy of Galería Elvira González.
Installation view: Günter Haese, Sculptures. Image courtesy of Galería Elvira González.
Installation view: Günter Haese, Sculptures. Image courtesy of Galería Elvira González.
Installation view: Günter Haese, Sculptures. Image courtesy of Galería Elvira González.
Installation view: Günter Haese, Sculptures. Image courtesy of Galería Elvira González.
Installation view: Günter Haese, Sculptures. Image courtesy of Galería Elvira González.
Installation view: Günter Haese, Sculptures. Image courtesy of Galería Elvira González.
Installation view: Günter Haese, Sculptures. Image courtesy of Galería Elvira González.
Installation view: Günter Haese, Sculptures. Image courtesy of Galería Elvira González.
Installation view: Günter Haese, Sculptures. Image courtesy of Galería Elvira González.
Installation view: Günter Haese, Sculptures. Image courtesy of Galería Elvira González.
Installation view: Günter Haese, Sculptures. Image courtesy of Galería Elvira González.
Installation view: Günter Haese, Sculptures. Image courtesy of Galería Elvira González.
Installation view: Günter Haese, Sculptures. Image courtesy of Galería Elvira González.
Installation view: Günter Haese, Sculptures. Image courtesy of Galería Elvira González.
Installation view: Günter Haese, Sculptures. Image courtesy of Galería Elvira González.
Trained first as a watchmaker and then as an artist at the Düsseldorf School - where he studied with Bruno Goller, Ewald Mataré and Joseph Beuys in the 1950s - Haese applied clockwork mechanisms to explore, through the control of movement and weight, the rules of balance. His work materializes a constant attempt to reach the limit of the stable. This not only responds constructively to his deep interest in material balance, but was determined by his study of cybernetic theorems and cellular structures.
Some of the titles of his sculptures, such as Sinus (1987), Soma (2000), or Il Principe (1962), show us the influence that these scientific matters represented when conceiving his sculptures.
Haese obsessively explored the beauty of the forms in nature and the way they connect, creating a very personal aesthetic universe that facilitated the path to their understanding. This deep curiosity allowed him to develop his artistic practice navigating between different fields of knowledge, looking from several angles instead of in one direction.
In 1964 he participated in Documenta in Kassel and, that same year, was the first German artist to have an individual exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, 1964. In 1966 he represented Germany at the Venice Biennale. This is the third exhibition of Günter Haese in the Elvira González Gallery.
Some of the titles of his sculptures, such as Sinus (1987), Soma (2000), or Il Principe (1962), show us the influence that these scientific matters represented when conceiving his sculptures.
Haese obsessively explored the beauty of the forms in nature and the way they connect, creating a very personal aesthetic universe that facilitated the path to their understanding. This deep curiosity allowed him to develop his artistic practice navigating between different fields of knowledge, looking from several angles instead of in one direction.
In 1964 he participated in Documenta in Kassel and, that same year, was the first German artist to have an individual exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, 1964. In 1966 he represented Germany at the Venice Biennale. This is the third exhibition of Günter Haese in the Elvira González Gallery.
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Location
Galería Elvira González. C/ Hermanos Álvarez Quintero, 1. Madrid, Spain
Dates
Opening.- 10 de abril, 19:30h. Dates.- from April 10 to June 1.
Opening hours to the public.- Monday to Friday, from 10:30 to 19:30 h and Saturdays from 11:00 to 14:00 h.
Günter Haese
Günter Haese (Kiel 1924 - Düsseldorf 2016) began to paint and draw from a very young age in a natural and self-taught way until he was 26 years old and enrolled in the Art Academy of Düsseldorf, where he studied under the tutelage of Edwald Mataré and Bruno Goller, together with other artists such as Joseph Beuys, Erwin Heerich, or Georg Meistermann. He quickly became part of the Master Class of Sculpture with the artist Edwald Mataré, who later assisted as an assistant in his work for the Cologne Cathedral. It was Mataré who took seriously his careful studies of nature, orienting him towards sculpture.
Influenced by his master, Haese abandoned the engraving of crystal plate monotypes, in which he was already exploring reticular motifs, and found the materials for his new works while dismantling a broken watch. From then on he used pliers, clamps and welders to build his works with brass meshes and copper wires. He thus evolved towards more stable figures made with chronometer pieces, and went on to design what he would later define as "freer rhythmic and scenic events".
In 1963 he sent the Junger Westen Prize his first series of sculptures, relatively simple compared to later ones. With surprising rapidity, he expands and defines in the following years his personal vocabulary with which he worked since then. In 1964 he presented his first exhibition at the Ulmer Museum. It raised so much expectation that in the same year he held an individual exhibition at the MOMA, Museum of Modern Art in New York and was invited to participate in the Documenta III of the city of Kassel with artists such as Hans Arp, Francis Bacon, Max Bill, Constantin Brâncusi, Alexander Calder, Charles Eames, Wassily Kandinsky, Joan Miró, Piet Mondrian and Egon Schiele among others.
Influenced by his master, Haese abandoned the engraving of crystal plate monotypes, in which he was already exploring reticular motifs, and found the materials for his new works while dismantling a broken watch. From then on he used pliers, clamps and welders to build his works with brass meshes and copper wires. He thus evolved towards more stable figures made with chronometer pieces, and went on to design what he would later define as "freer rhythmic and scenic events".
In 1963 he sent the Junger Westen Prize his first series of sculptures, relatively simple compared to later ones. With surprising rapidity, he expands and defines in the following years his personal vocabulary with which he worked since then. In 1964 he presented his first exhibition at the Ulmer Museum. It raised so much expectation that in the same year he held an individual exhibition at the MOMA, Museum of Modern Art in New York and was invited to participate in the Documenta III of the city of Kassel with artists such as Hans Arp, Francis Bacon, Max Bill, Constantin Brâncusi, Alexander Calder, Charles Eames, Wassily Kandinsky, Joan Miró, Piet Mondrian and Egon Schiele among others.
