Edgar Hellwig
1959 in Dinslaken geboren

1980 Entwicklung des "Horizontalismus"
lebt und arbeitet in Dinslaken

Diverse Ausstellungen in Deutschland

Homepage: www.hellwig.onlinehome.de, www.horizontalism.com, www.ambient-art-agency.net

Mail: edgar.hellwig@online.de

Edgar Hellwigs Bilder sind Ausdruck seiner metaphysischen Leidenschaft über die Begrenzungen des Konkreten hinweg zu schauen und den Blick in die schier unendlichen Weiten immer neuer Horizonte zu richten. Unerschöpflich erscheinen dabei die Variationen der ihn faszinierenden Unendlichkeit aus Farben, Licht und Formen. Seine horizontalen Landschaften strahlen Ruhe und Zuversicht aus und doch beinhalten ihre Farbkompositionen auch Elemente des Surrealen, die den sanften Bildern eine unterschwellige Kraft und Spannung verleihen.

Ausstellungen:

T-Systems Nova GmbH, Bonn
MAY GRUNDBESITZ GmbH & Co. KG, Erftstadt
GEZ - Gebühreneinzugszentrale der öffentlich-rechtlichen, Köln (Bocklemünd)
Lehman Brothers Bankhaus AG, München
MERCURI URVAL GmbH, Meerbusch-Osterrath
Galerie Roland Schwan, Moers
Da Vinci Denkmöbel, Köln
sd & m AG, Troisdorf

Horizontalism - A New Style in Modern Art

Horizontalism in fine arts describes a style of landscape painting, that was developed and begun by Edgar Hellwig in 1980 when he remarked the need to express himself in painting.

The main characteristics of Horizontalism is the kind of the painting, where horizontal, even in itself melting brush strokes will generate e. g. the wideness of a landscape. If you will see horizontalistic works, the eyes will dive deep into the pictures, breathing the devine feeling of the infinity.

In his very early work, the artist was strongly influenced by the surrealists, and this was reflected though in his pictures. Starting with primitive drawing and experiments, the result was an unconventional youthly paintwork.
But constantly getting a better trust to the brush within time, it could be felt, that there was still a creativity within Hellwig´s pictures that has to be led in structural forms.

One day the force of the infinity attacks the artist, and so he decided a radical change to conventional, representational painting. This was when he recognized, that the "background" of his pictures shows an genious potential of wide, nebulous landscapes, while the "foreground" often contenses cheap "fillers" - compared to the depht.