Ewerdt Hilgemann has been invited by the Park Avenue Sculpture Committee to exhibit his work on the median along Park Avenue in New York City for a period of three months, starting August 2014.

This prestigious location has seen many famous artists preceding his performance, e.g. Fernando Botero, Bernar Venet, Keith Haring, Niki de St.Phalle and many others.

Hilgemann designed works for seven locations between 52nd Street (the Seagram Building) and 67th Street (Park Avenue Armory), all made of stainless steel in different configurations, single pieces as well as groups of two or more.

A Project Booklet is available at www.blurb.com and the number of youtube movies is steadily growing.

Ewerdt Hilgemann (1938) was born in Witten, Germany and moved to Gorinchem, the Netherlands in 1970. He started his career with wall pieces made out of wood, related to the Zero movement, but over time developed into a conceptual artist using stone and metal for his sculptures.

Since 1984 he lives and works in Amsterdam. Here he developed a special vacuum process, with which he removes the air from the interior of geometrical shapes made out of stainless steel designed by him, causing the material to deform according to natural, physical laws. This way, his work gained a less formal and more expressive quality. The resulting forms can be best described as 'Implosion Sculptures'. For New York Hilgemann is using this technique.