Herbert Hamak

Herbert Hamak

26.02.05 16.04.05

Xippas Paris Past
Herbert Hamak, 2005

The work of Herbert Hamak, which lies between painting and sculpture, is born of a combination of form, colour and light. Hamak works with colour in three dimensions, cutting and moulding it into simple, generally monochrome forms: cubes, parallelepipeds, columns.

The process with which he attains these forms is extremely slow and complex. It is the result of a working method bordering on artistic and scientific experiments using a skilfully prepared mixture of pigments of both natural and synthetic resin and wax. This liquid substance is moulded onto a conventional panel. The colour is thus imprisoned becoming a changeable mass, at times translucent, at others, opaque and of which the intensity varies according to the ambient lighting. If the surface of a painting usually reflects the light, by contrast light penetrates Hamak’s paintings.

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