Andreas Hegewald began with music - as a Thomaner in Leipzig - later pen and pencil and colours were added, then work in stone and wood, in words and verse. Image and writing have the same status, says the artist, he wants to achieve that images become writing and writing becomes image.
The exhibition "Das poetische Weltbild" at the Leonhardi-Museum Dresden shows what Hegewald means by this: in the two current original graphic volumes entitled "ISIMERIA" (2018), he juxtaposes his own hand-set texts with a pictorial second level, realised as coloured woodblock prints, also by his own hand. Also on display are graphic sheets from the cycles "I AM NOT MY NAME" (2012) and "GLAUBE NICHT WAS DU WEISST" (2015) as well as the ink series "FEDERWOLKEN - offener Brief an Carlfriedrich Claus" (2006).
Gregor Kunz spoke at the opening of the exhibition on Friday, 21 June 2019.
The artist was present at the opening.
