About Artist: Hego Goevert Born and grown up in North Rhine Westphalia, Germany. Living and working in Herdecke. “HEGO” is a pseudonym – derived from the first two letters of my first and last name (Heinz Goevert). For many, many years I’ve played the drums in various rock- and rhythm ‘n blues bands in Dortmund, Germany. When I had to stop playing the drums a few years ago, I was really missing something. I felt a kind of “creative gap” which I filled by taking up a passion from my youth: painting. I took it up in 2003. I have studied English and Social Sciences and ended up as a headmaster of a secondary modern school. As far as painting is concerned I am self taught. In my abstract paintings I attempt to visualize emotions, feelings, and moods as they are expressed in blues music. I also attempt to express the transitoriness, the decline of life as a necessary precondition for the genesis of something new. Some of my paintings show a ZEN – like motif. Besides black and white I like to use warm, earthy colours (acrylics, pigments) – mixed with sand or modelling paste in different layers – painted, smoothed over in rough, often archaic looking patterns. Sometimes I also use marble dust, mull, pack-twine, copper- and zinc plates, jeans-cloth, pc-scrap, and metal flakes. I use to paint while listening to rhythm ‘n blues music and I feel that painting and drumming have a lot in common. My work has also been publicly juried numerous times into the top 10 (12 times within two years) of the “TOP 50” – artists on “Saatchi Showdown” (Saatchi-Gallery London) which regularly receives over 40 million hits per day. My artwork “Dancing Lines” came in 3rd in Showdown Round Ten (July 2009) – out of 2320 artworks handed in. Since 2008 I have been working as one of six council members of the internationally acclaimed Mirca Art Group. Exhibitions/art books: 2005: Wetter (Germany, “artmile”, local city bank); 2008: Stockholm (Sweden, Galleri Lyktan, group exhibition); 2009: New York (USA, Mount Beacon Fine Art Gallery in Beacon, New York, travelling exhibition “Freedom and Art”, February – May); 2009: Wetter (Germany, Wohnstättengenossenschaft, March – June); 2009: Stockholm (Sweden, Ostra Gymnasiet Trangsund, “The Mirca Tour for Human Rights Exhibition”, group exhibition, November – December); 2010: Cape Town (South Africa, Belinda Anvil – The Rainbow Experience Gallery, “Freedom & Art”- project/travelling exhibition, April – May); 2010: Cologne (Germany, Kahlshof, “Planet Earth, Planet Art”, group exhibition, September – December); 2011: Cologne (Germany, Kahlshof, “Cologne meets New York”, group exhibition, January – March); 2011: Witten (Germany, Gemeinschaftspraxis Marienplatz, “International Art Show”, group exhibition, February – May); 2011: Witten (Germany, Marien Hospital Witten, “New York im Marien-Hospital”, group exhibition, April – July); 2011: Malta (University of Malta, “The Mirca Tour For Human Rights”, group exhibition, July – August); 2011: New York (USA, Skylight Gallery NYC, “Gestalt – German Artists in Conversation”, group exhibition, July – August; published my art book “VIEW – Exclusively Abstract”, blurb, New York); 2011: Hagen (Germany, KKH, “…vorwiegend Blau”, group exhibition, October – December); 2012: New York (USA, “Room No. 5”, ‘Skylight Gallery’, Manhattan, group exhibition, August – September 2012); 2012: Witten (Germany, “konsequent abstrakt“, Gemeinschaftspraxis Marienplatz, solo exhibition, August – October); 2012: Witten (Germany, „panta rhei“, Stadtwerke Witten, group exhibition, September – October); 2013: New York (USA, “European Sensibility Near and Far”, Gallery 66 NY, group exhibition, January 4th – 27th); 2014: Orewa (New Zealand, “Nirvanavan Foundation Exhibition”, Estuary Arts Centre, group exhibition, March 8th – April 8th); 2014: Luxembourg (Court of Justice of the European Union, “Guardian of the edge”, visual artists respond to the poetry of Agnes Marton, group exhibition, 6 November 2014 to 9 January 2015). Upcoming exhibition: 2015: Los Alamos, New Mexico (USA, Mesa Library Gallery, “Threading Forever” group exhibition, June). Hego Goevert https://hegoart.wordpress/ saatchiart/account/artworks/34311 https://plus.google/u/0/114041954953190520830/posts
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