Animated
Sculpture by Uwe Schmidt-Hess
About the Artist
Uwe
Schmidt-Hess was born in Neubrandenburg, Germany. He studied
architecture in Weimar, Oxford and London and has worked in
architectural practices in Europe and Asia. Currently his field of
interest is the creation of spaces which embody intuition, experience
and sensation, establishing conversations with the mythical side of
architecture. Schmidt-Hess has won prizes in design competitions and
his work has been featured in several exhibitions. He has also been the
recipient of numerous scholarships by the German Academic Exchange
Service, German National Merit Foundation, and the Carl
Duisberg Society. He current lives in London, where he is working as an
architect and teaches at Greenwich University.
Contact
information: uwe.schmidt-hess@web.de
Melancholic Machine
The melancholic machine is an animated sculpture. It is the
operator for the investigation of shifted spaces—spaces which exist
beyond the
boundaries of the physical world. These are soft, liquid, elastic
spaces
extending from the actual into the virtual realm and vice versa
ignoring our
modes of categorization. Themes as duration, time, extension, and
juxtaposition
are discussion. The operation is not to examine objects but the
changing
relationships between them as this is the only thing we ever can know.
Schmidt-Hess' scuplture is part of a larger work, titled "Vagrant
Geometry," which will be made available with our next issue of Janus Head (Summer 2006), in
conjunction with Schmidt-Hess' philosophy behind the work and video
capturing his work in motion.
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