Jason E. Shaiman, Curator of ExhibitionsMiami University Art Museum
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As an institution devoted to the appreciation of visual culture and
higher learning, the Miami University Art Museum is pleased to be a venue for
exhibiting the paintings, collages and sculptures of Swiss artist H.A. (Hermann
Alfred) Sigg. The artist, who will turn 90 in June 2014, has spent the past
seven decades exploring the visual vocabulary of abstraction in an attempt to
reveal the essence of places seen, people known, moments in time and the
artist’s state of mind. For most of his career, nature – land, water, sky – has
been the heart of his work. Even the structures and people that inhabit these
spaces are represented through the artist’s lyrically composed abstract
landscapes and totemic sculptures of an architectural and figurative manner.
Sigg’s interplay of spatial relationships, bold flowing passages of manipulated
color and constructed environments are at one moment energetic, the next
calming and meditative, yet always speaking to the soul.
Jason E. Shaiman, Curator of Exhibitions
Miami University Art Museum