“On the one hand, Jürgen Schön's sculptures suggest things, fragments of architecture or the like. On the other hand, they consistently elude any definition of function or designation. They are simply there - succinct, autonomous, provocative, mysterious.
Originally a stone sculptor, the Dresden artist Jürgen Schön changed his material and artistic concept in 1989. Instead of the finality and aesthetic weight of classical sculptural materials, he opted for the temporary lightness of paper. Layer by layer, a form develops in glue-soaked paper. And it is precisely this layering that conceals it from the viewer, conceals the form before it can be given a name. Grey and white paper, mixed with glue, develops its own colorfulness; together with the modeling, the surface suggests an impressionistic, dissolving view of the sculptures. The artist intuitively finds the pure form and its own inner coherence.
In order to achieve this, the artist does not allow any interpretation for his sculptures: not nature, not the world of things, no social or societal significance - only the aura of mystery, silence, concentration, a serene calmness is conveyed by Jürgen Schön's sculptures. The fundamental modernist idea of the independence and autonomy of the work of art has found a remarkable renaissance in Jürgen Schön's work."
- WERNER MEYER -
