Painting? Sculpture? The work by the German sculptor Herbert Hamak (1952) isn't part of art's traditional categories. He concentrates, rather, on the purity of colour, intensified by a knowing use of the resin-filtered light that is the essence of his work.
Hamak has often created a rapport with already existing situations, whether natural or monumental. His installation on the facade of Atri cathedral in 2004 was astounding; it was later reused on a permanent basis in the Bocconi university in Milan. His are not the usual kind of sculptural interventions because Hamak uses the building, its facade, and various spaces as a painter uses the canvas and the stretcher. One of the keys to his art is landscape: the state and condition in which colour and three-dimensionality within space live together in perfect harmony. His most recent works present more complex forms than before: there is a further concentration on certain architectural forms as well as on various aspects of Renaissance painting. (see biography)
Angela Madesani, 2010
H439N, H435N, H441N – 2001
resin and pigment on canvas
48 x 19 x 19 cm each
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S.T. – 2009
resin and pigment on canvas
86,2 x 8,7 x 21,6 cm
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S.T. – 2009
resin and pigments
180 x 86 x 24,5 cm
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S.T. – 2007
resin and pigments on canvas, on pedestal
60 x 40 x 6 cm
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Ultramarinblau Dunkel – 2008
resin and pigments
220 x 20 x 20 cm
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S.T. - H1139 N - S.T. - H 1137 N – 2009
resin and pigments on canvas
30 x 8,6 x 26 - 30,6 x 30,6 x 12 cm
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S.T. - H 1131 N – 2008
resin and pigments on canvas
18,6 x 18,6 x 24 cm
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S.T. H1129N - MAGENTA - CADMIUM ORANGE H1020NK – 2008
resin and pigments on canvas
40 x 40 x 21,3 - 40 x 40 x 21,5 cm
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S.T. H1178N – 2010
resin and pigments on canvas
78 x 62 x 10 cm
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S.T. H1176N – 2010
resin and pigments on canvas
34 x 22,5 x 22,5 cm
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S. T. H1173N – 2010
resin and pigments on canvas
26 x 18 x 18 cm
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S.T. 1172N – 2010
resin and pigments on canvas
26 x 18 x 18 cm
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Herbert Hamak, installazione 2007
Castelvecchio, Verona
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Herbert Hamak, installazione 2007
Arco, Trento
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Herbert Hamak, installazione 2008
Archiginnasio, Arte Fiera - Bologna
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Herbert Hamak, installation view -
2008, Studio la Città Verona
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Herbert Hamak, Progetto Terre del Cerrano -
2003, Atri
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Herbert Hamak, Munster Kotten -
Private Collection - Germany
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Herbert Hamak, installation - 2008
New Bocconi University, Milan
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Herbert Hamak, installation - 2009
IN-FINITUM, Palazzo Fortuny, Venezia
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Herbert Hamak, installation - 2006
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venezia
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Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld
installation view 2010
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