Figure
- Strictly limited edition - Only 5 copies
- Graceful figure with curved and dancing shapes
- Musicians and artists from Cottbus - Today in Glindow
- Co-founder of the GDR punk band ‘Sandow’
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Features and Remarks
The bronze was cast by Ihle in Dresden in a strictly limited edition of just 5 pieces. The dark patinated figure stands slender and graceful on a square base.
Hinze, who began with chainsaw sculptures in the 1990s, works much more carefully here in the medium of bronze: from the front, the figure appears like a slightly curved stele with a small head, but from the side it takes on the appearance of a taut arch with dancing curves.
The bronze, covered with smoothed notches, stands uncompromisingly vertical in the room at a height of almost 1 metre.
Artists with punk roots
„Hinze's figures are thinned out, almost disembodied, stele-like. They bore their existence into the ground, as if they had to claw their way through in order not to be blown over by the storms of time. Gender plays no role in this. Hinze's sure sense of mass and outline in space comes in equal parts from his knowledge of Native American tradition, African blockiness and cubist stereometry. Hinze's boats, on the other hand, follow a calm principle of travelling and drifting through time, beyond the horizon - into the open. While some figures resemble guardians, pausing warriors or seem to have frozen into totems, Hinze's boats are ambassadors of the search and hope for new harbours and safe landings. [...] Chris Hinze's artistic gestures are more subtle than those of many of his generational peers. But like few artists of his calibre, he has remained true to his punk roots, always being bold and constantly evolving.“
Christoph Tannert, 2016
Informations about the artwork
| Category | Plastic |
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| artist | Hinze, Chris |
| Title | Figure |
| size 1 | 90,0 x 10,0 x 10,0 cm |
| material | Bronze, patinated |
| edition | 5 copies, here No. 4 |
| signature | Foundry mark, monogrammed and numbered to the side of the base at the back: CH 4/5 |
| publication |  vgl. Hinze, C. (2016): Chris Hinze. Skulptur. Potsdam: Chris Hinze GmbH |
| Provenance | Private Collection Germany |
Information about the condition
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The Plastic is in a very good condition |
Information about the artist
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Chris Hinze wurde 1969 in Cottbus geboren. Hinze gründete bereits 1982, im Alter von 13 Jahren zusammen mit Kai-Uwe Kohlschmidt die Band 'Sandow', benannt nach dem im Cottbuser Stadtteil. Die Gruppe spielte auf Brigadefeiern, Geburtstagen oder LPG-Erntedankfesten. 1984 erhielten sie eine offizielle Spielerlaubnis. Die Punkband wurde besonders bekannt durch das in den Wendejahren entstandene Lied 'Born in the G.D.R.'. Neben der Musik war Hinze auch schon früh künstlerisch aktiv. Der Autodidakt arbeitet seit 1992 als freischaffender Künstler in den Bereichen Skulptur, Installation, Grafik, Malerei und Performance. Der Künstler gilt als einer der wichtigsten zeitgenössischen Künstler in Brandenburg. Nach langem Aufenthalt in Potsdam, wo er 2009 zusammen mit Mikos Meininger das Kunsthaus 'sans titre' gründete, lebt und arbeitet er seit 2017 auf dem Gelände der historischen Ziegelmanufaktur Glindow. 2007 wurde Hinze mit weiteren Künstler von der Batuz Foundationals ein Arbeitsaufenthalt mit Ausstellung in Montevideo (Cabildo de Montevideo) in Uruguay gewährt. Zahlreiche seiner Werke befinden sich in Sammlungen im öffentlichen Raum, z.B. der Deutschen Bank Berlin, der Sparkasse Cottbus oder in der Kunstsammlung des Deutschen Bundestages. |
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