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 Robbert Ewers' works form a juxtaposition of the elements language, color, substrate, size and framing. Color is mostly monochrome and uniform. Typography is applied, cut from sheet polymer and then the work is mostly framed. The text is an integral part of the work and must not be seen as a title. The personal note of the artist is to be as reductive as possible.
What separates a picture from a piece of writing?
The observer's gaze, whether encountering a non-abstract or even an abstract work, sweeps across the details, forms relationships between them, which are changeable. The non-abstract or abstract work documents the imagination of the artist's concept. At the beginning of the third millennium, in post-non-abstract, post-abstract and post-concrete era, works no longer allow themselves to be defined by these terms. Text invites categorical thinking and so the understanding of a text-work must be different from the understanding of a descriptive picture. A word or a term evokes in general an individual concept or reaction from the subject.
A thought-within-terms is required when approaching the concept of Robbert Ewers' works. As we then begin to read, we also begin to follow the linear structure of the typography. We than notice the individuality and the relationships between format, color and borders in the overall themes. After reading we then look at the possibilities between reading and looking which present themselves. Possibly there is also an individual impression which has been provoked somewhere between the reading and the looking. This implies a train of thought is required from a work of Robbert Ewers before the piece can be taken in as a whole.
Written by Astrid Petermeier
Translated into English by Jay Adams
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