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Werner Haypeter was born in Helmstedt, Niedersachsen, Germany in 1955.
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Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf
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Werner Haypeter
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Werner Haypeter studied at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf during 1978 - 1985, and from 1983 he was a master student of Erwin Heerich.
Career
The character of Haypeter's constructivist works is determined by his choice of materials. This is already the case with the numerous works on paper, in particular, the ink paintings, made since the 1980s, in which simple geometric forms are superimposed as folded sheets of paper or as black ink shapes.
In the mid-1980s, Haypeter started to make images out of heavy layers of transparent, smoothly polished Polyvinyl chloride. Geometric in character, with interrelating rightangles, Haypeter's wall images nonetheless take on a sculptural dimension on account of their material qualities. Since the mid-1990s Haypeter's sculptures made from polyethylene sheets and pieces of hard, cast plastic expand even more emphatically into the exhibition space.
Initially, Werner Haypeter's art appears to be a straightforward geometric use of the industrial material. Small metal beams, layered resin reliefs, and Polyvinyl chloride sheets are placed in simple arrangements that seem to create a sense of manufactured symmetry.
Bands of Haypeter's hallmark muted yellow acrylic are placed off-center or are misaligned from their expected systems. Similarly, marks and blemishes in the finish remind us that these works are in fact made by hand - the artist's touch enhances rather than diminishes the apparent machine-made appearance. Haypeter's work unites the aesthetic of mass production with the geometric concerns and theories of Modernism.
Haypeter has won numerous prizes and awards, most recently a studio grant from the business group A. Sutter in 1994 - 1995, a work grant from the Kunstfonds, Bonn, in 1996 and the Piepenbrock Nachwuchspreis in 1996 for sculpture. Haypeter currently lives and works in Bonn.
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Werner Haypeter adheres to the artistic traditions of Neo-Minimalism. Vertical and horizontal lines, grids, squares, and circles — the vocabulary of Werner Haypeter’s work apparently relies on basic forms of geometric abstraction. This has prompted some critics to label his extensive sculptural output as “concrete art” or “constructivism.” In doing so, however, they ignore the fact that although Haypeter adopts a tried and tested repertory of Modernist forms, he uses them for a different purpose, thus interpreting them as a means of overcoming a formalistic concept of art. Space, for Haypeter, is no abstract matter.
