NEWS

NEWS FROM THE PAST:
3 new pages about the Foundation PRO - pro art and architecture (c 1986-2012) provide access to an astounding amount of activities of this organization that was founded by Fré and Jacqueline Ilgen, internationally promoting constructive art and architecture. The PRO Magazin, catalogues, some 35 international exhibitions, large conferences, art fairs, collaborations with other artists' groups, involving an extraordinary number of artists from West- and East Europe, Canda, the USA, South America, Korea. -> click here

4 LARGE SCULPTURES
Studies to be cast in bronze, each c H2M (H78”)

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Commissioned wall sculpture for chimney terrace
Private collection, Berlin, Germany, installed July 2025

Soul Love, 2025

In this case I created a choice of 3 sculptures for the wall of a chimney on a terrace, each sculpture in stainless steel.
Collages display an impression of these works on the wall; 'Soul Love' was choosen, the two others are available. For more information click here.


5 BRONZE SCULPTURES
A selection, each c H50 – 90 cm (c H20 – 35 “)

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RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

New catalogue The New Familiar

Published by Studio Ilgen, Berlin, 2023 Hardcover, 82 pages, full color pictures of new paintings and sculptures, 2020-2023.

THE VIEWER? The Actual Purpose of Art

English, hardcover, 212 pages, 60 color reproductions.
Published by Salon Studio Ilgen, Germany, 2022. ISBN 978 3 00 072728 3

Key notions: eye movements, alignment, familiarity, focus of attention, bewilderment, the brain’s need for stress and decline of stress, well-being, health.

The book offers a first theory for the natural need of having art in one’s private environment as important attribute of everyday functioning. Not unlike music, important in life’s focusing and well-being. Ilgen furthermore offers explanations how art can work as attribute of corporate social responsibility.

click here for more information: THEORY - BOOKS

catalogue book
"Fré Ilgen – The Changeling – Contemporary Classic"

color and black/white pictures, covering 272 pages, published by Studio Ilgen. Berlin, 2020,
ISBN 978-3-00-064884-7
Note: let us know if you like to receive a copy?