Artist profile

Werner Haypeter

Untitled (2013)

resin, MDF, acrylic, acrylic paint and acrylic glass
99.6 x 127 x 5 cm (ref:WH0164)

Untitled (2016)

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

Untitled (2016)

MDF, acrylic paint, pencil, resin and plexi
112.6 x 55.8 x 55.8 cm (ref:WH0169)

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)

Untitled (2014)

resin, acrylic and plexiglass
60 x 49.8 x 7 cm (ref:Wh0163)

Volumen 1 (2013)

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

Untitled (2014)

resin, acrylic, plexiglass
33.3 x 25.8 x 6.9 cm (ref:Wh0160)

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)

resin, acrylic, plexiglass
46.1 x 39.3 x 4.4 cm (ref:WH0139)

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 (2011)

pencil, watercolour on folded and cut paper
28 x 23.9 cm (ref:WH0131)

Untitled 6 (2008)

wood, acrylic paint, fluorescent paint and resin
56 x 60 x 5.2 cm (ref:WH0094)

Untitled (2007)

Aluminium, acrylic, wood and resin, 5 parts
40 x 196.5 x 4 cm (ref:WH0129)

Untitled (1999)

steel and resin, 3 parts
overall 20.6 x 129 x 57 cm (ref:WH0013)

Untitled (1994)

steel, black PVC
225 x 135 x 22.5 cm (ref:WH0024)

Untitled No. 2 (1990)

heavy duty natural and black P.V.C.
225 x 203 cm (ref:WH0001)

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

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)

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