‟ For me a sculpture must have a vitality of its own. I don’t mean a reflection of the vitality of life, of movement, physical action, frisking, dancing or agonizing and so on, but that a work can have a pent up energy, an intense life of its own, independent of the object I may represent. When a work has this powerful vitality we don’t connect the word beauty with it. Between beauty of expression and power of expression there is a difference of function. The first aims at pleasing the senses, the second has a spiritual vitality which for me is more moving and goes deeper than the senses. Because a work doesn’t aim a reproducing natural appearances, it is not, therefore, an escape from life but maybe a penetration into reality, an expression of the significance of life, a stimulation to greater effort of living.”
Incredible presence….
Rediscovered in the excellent exhibition organized by Sophie Orlic in Lausanne, his sculpture deserves attention and respect. Figurative, expressionnist, its shows the human anxiety and its hidden instincts. ‟- do we touch the sacred? Is he declaring, - yes, if the sacred is this fear or this terror which man fells in the most profound part of himself…
I use some forms which are suggested by this or that ruine of Latin America; In reality, my work is made of ruines of all the times and all the cultures.”
A magnificent work!
Miroir de l’Art n° 39, 2012
"Hans Jorgensen is a magician who finds himself lost in a harsh world modulated with a rough and brilliant vision. The fever of a profound interior world radiates his dark fantasies and his totemic silhouettes…”
Christian Noorbergen
