Artist profile
Werner Haypeter

Untitled (2016)
resin, acrylic paint, fluorescent paint, plexi and twine
31 x 31 x 5 cm (ref:WH0171)

Untitled (2017)
pencil, watercolour and acrylic on folded, torn and cut paper, Dorée board
45 x 37 cm (ref:WH0191)

Untitled (2016)
pencil, watercolour and acrylic on folded, torn and cut paper, Dorée board
27 x 90 cm (ref:WH0182)

Mikado 45_250 (2013)
acrylic paint, wood and sanded plexiglass
variable size, plexiglass
162.5 x 10 cm (ref:Wh0156)

Volumen 1 (2013)
acrylic filter stripes/light field, acrylic paint and resin
40.9 x 34.2 x 4 cm (ref:Wh0157)

Meter/23.2.2013 (2013)
wood, acrylic paint, fluorescent paint, resin, 20 steel nails
10 parts: 39.8 x 100 x 3 cm (ref:Wh0155)

Volumen 2 (2013)
acrylic filter stripes/light field, acrylic paint and resin
40.9 x 36 x 3.4 cm (ref:Wh0158)

Untitled (2012)
pencil, watercolour and acrylic on folded, torn and cut paper
22.9 x 23 cm (ref:WH0151)

Untitled (2012)
pencil, watercolour, printer’s ink and acrylic on folded, torn and cut paper
25.5 x 22.2 cm (ref:WH0153)

Untitled (2012)
pencil, watercolour, grease and acrylic on folded, torn and cut paper
22 x 23 cm (ref:Wh0143)

Untitled (2012)
pencil, watercolour, grease and acrylic on folded, torn and cut paper
22.8 x 21 cm (ref:Wh0142)
Initially, Werner Haypeter's art appears to be a straighforward geometric use of industrial material. Small metal beams, layered resin reliefs and PVC sheets are placed in simple arrangements that seem to create a sense of manufactured symmetry. This illusion is however altered by Haypeter's artistic intervention. Bands of Haypeter's hallmark muted yellow acrylic are placed off centre or are misaligned from their expected systems. Similarly, marks and blemishes in the finish remind us that these works are in fact make by hand - the artist's touch enhances rather than diminishes the apparant machine-made appearance. Haypeter's work unites the aesthetic of mass production with the geometric concerns and theories of Modernism.
Biography
- 1955
- Born Helmstedt/Niedersachsen
- 1978–85
- Studied at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
- 1982
- Travelling scholarship from Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf to Italy
- 1983
- Master student of Professor Erwin Heerich
- 1986
- Art award and scholarship at the city of Bonn
- 1994–95
- Work scholarship of the Kunstfonds e.V., Bonn
- 1996
- Lives and works in Düsseldorf and Bonn
Selected exhibitions
- 2020
- Künstlerforum Bonn
- 2020
- Museum Schloss Moyland
- 2013–14
- Haypeter raum maß-geblich, Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserlautern
- 2013
- Aus der Sache Heraus, kunstgaleriebonn, Bonn (with Hadi Tabatabai)
- 2011
- Werner Haypeter, Galerie Wack, Kaiserslautern
- 2008
- Traces of Movement, Annely Juda Fine Art, London
- 2007
- Studio A Ottendorf, Museum gegenstandsfreier Kunst, Landkreis Cuxhaven
- 2006
- Galerie König, Hanau (with Yuko Shiraishi)