Noch Einmal
1990
Henk Visch
The title of this sculpture is “Again.” What will this leg do again? It suggests movement, but at the same time is motionless. It is heavy and solid, but also wobbly. This field of tension intrigues Henk Visch. The sculpture looks simple, but the surprising title stimulates the viewer’s imagination without offering an unequivocal answer.
Details
- Plan number: B08
- Zone: Motion
- Title: Noch Einmal (Again, One more time)
- Creator: Henk Visch
- Date: 1990
- Material: bronze
- Acquisition: purchase
- Object number: MID.B.551
The leg often recurs in Visch’s work in various shapes and sizes. “Actually, all of my work is about standing,” says Visch. “You could really call that a kind of theme. All sculptures actually stand on a foot or lean on something. Standing as you yourself also stand and exist. Feet with which you stand on the ground—no, not on the ground, on the earth. The earth is bottomless.”
A leg mostly makes us think of walking or running, of movement. Yet this leg cannot actually move. The artist explains the title with the fact that the sculpture exists in an infinite edition of various sizes. Each time it sells, the artist casts a new one. Again?
Dutch contemporary draftsman, sculptor, and graphic artist Henk Visch has a remarkable sense of the interplay between image and language. His work is highly diverse: sometimes thin lines of metal, like drawings in the air, other times massive bronze volumes. As Visch himself says, “my work has no direction, but all directions.”
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Henk Visch made this sculpture especially for Middelheim Museum. He designed an ambiguous form that relates to other (bronze) sculptures and to the park. “My work looks like a stump, an old, rotting tree,” he said. “You can clearly see that the sculpture is made of building blocks, like the museum buildings around it.” The result is surprising and invites all kinds of associations: is it a pedestal, a chalice, a tree trunk, a fungus, or something else entirely?
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