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ART & COLLABORATION hermann-art.work ART & COLLABORATION POMP-I-DO KG HERMANN ART & COLLABORATION TANNENFELDSTR. 58, 6812 MEININGEN AUSTRIA HERMANN NACHBAUR +43 664 338 74 03 [email protected] Office +43 5522 848 12 02-03 ROTKÄPPCHEN Brass/Bronze 220x38x105cm Secret compartment with scorpion Base: Rosewood, 12 x varnished + polished, 230x60x65cm Squared timber on base also available in brass/bronze, 90x11x11cm hammered by hand – counterworked and then shaped Structured worked by hand - polished by hand Every single cartridge made by hand and soldered in Brass beam: Wooden structure engraved by hand using a steel pin 04-05 › 06-07 INTO THE LIGHT Brass/Bronze 215x170x1,5cm, pane of glass plate = 1.8cm Pedestal Root/branch: 148x75cm Forged by hand Inspiration: from nature - trees and roots - Plants move towards the sun - Day changes into night - Glass to represent light 08-09 › 10-11 DRAGON SKIN Natural leader/thick leader 160x83x63cm This strong leather requires a deep understanding of the material as well as craft know-how Patina based on own recipe - waxed by hand Tattoo based on draft: Chinese dragon and Eastern lotus blossoms - symbol for a long life and for evolving 12-13 › 14-15 PURE Root wood table 250x120x79cm Wood type – our secret Feet piano lacquer - 12 layers For the table surface, 24 carat transparent gold was poured into epoxy resin 16-17 › 18-19 HANDS OFF Marble 10.3x5.5cm Shells: hewn out of marble detonator in various colours Varnished chrome stainless steel Base: 13x13x5cm 20-21 › 22-23 BETTER MAN Mixed media on piano lacquer with gold leaf 132x231cm Frame: Snakeskin leather, brass Back: Colonell leather 24-25 › 26-27 THE QUEEN Mixed media on piano lacquer 260x130cm Photorealism 28-29 FIORE BELEZZA Wooden body Chanel material Material and wooden body handpainted using a traditional technique, varnished and polished repeatedly White gold 30-31 PRINZESSIN Aluminium/chrome varnish 195x43x21cm Bowl and peas hammered by hand, double-walled, sanded, varnished and polished Wooden base made from rosewood 32-33 UNIVERSE HERMANN The director of the art of ideas He is down-to-earth with a penchant for haute couture. He uses his hands to dig in the earth but wears velvet gloves to touch objets d’art. He has grown top-quality vegetables on his fields in the southern Rhine valley Vorarlberg for years. Today, he creates art that you would only expect to find in the Big Apple. He is driven by his own thoughts but at peace with himself. He is inspired by nature as much as by people, cities, architecture and other arts and artists. He thinks out- side the box where others cannot find a way out. He keeps his eye on the target where others cannot see the wood for the trees. He is an individualist but loves working as a team because only the best craftsmen, material experts and artists know that you need to have the skills as well as the knowledge. He has always been on the side of constancy – whether as a farmer who lives and works in harmony with nature or as an artist who creates unique works of art. Hermann seems to live in a world full of opposites. As if two hearts are beating in one and the same breast. As if he had withdrawn from agriculture in order to bloom in the world of art. But in reality and in his heart, Hermann continues to be a vegetable farmer. It is precisely because his love for nature and food is bigger than it needs to be, that his new ideas truly flourish: a move away from bar codes and back to the origins of sowing and harvesting. Hermann has in fact been an artist all his life and as a farmer made sure that a plant would grow from the seed. This process, which many consider to be a matter of course or even “natural”, he considers to be the high art of vegetable growing. But today, he is the director of his own art of ideas more than ever before. He sets the scene for his visions by directing artistic games which run from the first inspiration all the way to the delicate finishing touches of a project. He creates templates for designing his ideas - in spoken or written words, drawings, photographs or by lending a hand himself. This is where art is born, because the thoughts of a free spirit needs to be translated into comprehensible words or images. The materials used can be as unpredictable as nature. But Hermann can still claim that he is at his best as a craftsman and an artist when his ideas become a material reality through process-oriented creativity. If things don’t always work out according to plan, that’s just part of the process of creation. Every object is unique, every step a new departure. 34-35 HERMANN LOUNGE WITH LEOPARD AND SNAKE Inspired by Luisa Casati, Olga Berluti-Paris and Hermes, the new ensemble was created for the parlour of the family Meier in Vaduz. 36-37 HERMANN THE LOVERS OF POMPEII In its aesthetics, an ancient olive tree with its roots is already a work of art created by nature. That’s why it took a while until it was possible to approach this object with the necessary respect and sensitivity. It all started with the idea of returning the olive tree to its original beauty – giving it back its branches, leaves and fruit. 38-39 ART HERMANN 40-41 COLLABORATION JONTY HURWITZ Jonty Hurwitz (born in Johannesburg on 2 Sept. 1969) is a British sculptor and engineer who is known for his anamor- phic statues and minute three-dimensional representations of the human form. Jonty Hurwitz was born in South Africa as the son of hotelier Selwin Hurwitz and teacher Marcia, born Berger. He spent his childhood in various hotels in small towns in South Africa. From 1989 to 1993, Hurwitz studied electrical engineering with a focus on signal processing at the Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg. He then became a research assistant in the team of Michael Inggs at the University of Cape Town and published a paper on pattern detection in radar. Hurwitz creates sculptures using 3D printing in katoptric (mirrored) or oblique (foreshortened) anamorphosis which need to be calculated using an algorithm based on Pi. In 2014, in cooperation with the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology and the Weizmann Institute, he created minute three-dimensional representations of the human form using multi-photon lithography and photogrammetry. The smallest sculpture in the world: A documentary of the work recorded by CNN International was watched by 120 million people worldwide. 42-43 SAVOY CAT White bronze 80x450x250cm Cylinder 50cm #2 of 5 In the collection of the Savoy, London: “Superstition is an irrational reaction to our lack of understanding.” 44-45 THE HAND THAT CAUGHT ME FALLING Bronze, wood, chrome 45x40x40cm Sometimes in life, you will be falling: in love, from grace, by yourself, in a dream. This is a sculpture of a hand which caught my soul when I was falling. I will be forever grateful. 46-47 BODY OBSESSED WORLD Bronze, walnut wood, parabolic mirror 70x70x120cm #1 of 9 This work uses parabolic mathematics to show how the views held by society influence our self-perception. 48-49 SINGULARITY Bronze 150x20x40,5cm #4 of 9 Self-portrait Technological singularity is an example of a boundary in space-time. The sound barrier, the melting point of ice, the Lagrange point - these are a few other examples. 50-51 IMPRESSUM PHOTOGRAPHS Lukas Gächter ! 04 - 33/42 - 49 Rudolf Nabu ! 35 - 39 IMAGE PROCESSING Armin Kofler - pro.file TEXT Christiane Mähr ! 35 CONCEPT DESIGN Harry Marte Create Sense CREATIVE CONSULTANCY Harry Marte Create Sense PAPER 240 g/m2 Munken Polar 150 g/m2 Munken Polar PRINTING Thurnher Druckerei GmbH POMP-I-DO KG HERMANN Art & Collaboration 54-55 hermann-art.work POMP-I-DO KG HERMANN ART & COLLABORATION TANNENFELDSTR. 58, 6812 MEININGEN AUSTRIA HERMANN NACHBAUR +43 664 338 74 03 [email protected] Office +43 5522 848 12.