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Herbert Hamak at Museo di Castelvecchio - Opening March 18, 2007
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After more than thirteen years of collaboration with Studio la Città, from 18th March 2007, Herbert Hamak, on the invitation of the
director of cultural affairs for the Verona city council, Maurizio Pedrazza Gorlera, and of Paola Marini, director of the Castelvecchio
museum, will present a large-scale installation in the museum which, in 2004/2005, presented Eisenman's installation
. Hamak's work consists of a series of 18 four-metre long slabs slotted between the battlements: they are to be made from
resin coloured with an intense blue pigment: an ultramarine frequently used by the artist in his work. The installation will interact with both
the continual mutation of natural light, and an architectural and historical context of great importance and majesty: its aim is to be a
barely invasive intervention while openly interacting with the space, the city, and our imagination.
The intervention has parallels with that created for the façade of the Romanesque cathedral of Atri in 2003, and will be followed up by
another in the Schnütgen museum in Cologne. It will be inaugurated on the occasion of the reopening of the walkway around the castle
which has recently been completely restored to its ancient splendour. The Castelvecchio sculpture gallery will also be the venue for
another related installation by Hamak.
Herbert Hamak was born in 1952 in Unterfranken. Lives and
works in Hammelburg.
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