WILLI SIBER wants to see the world. He wants us to see the world. To move away from our rules and conventions, our genres, our ideas about how the world should be.
Neither sculpture, nor painting nor simple relief, his strangely soothing juxtapositions of opposites and apparent contradictions are on display this month for the first time in Hong Kong at the Karin Weber Gallery.
 
Made of industrial materials and processes, but unmistakably individual there’s something seductive about the work. The fingers itch and the eye delights following the texture, patterns, colours and form of his creations: white coral-like protrusions set next to smooth undulations of an inky black expanse; layers of transparent colour that shift and change as they interact with each other, creating texture within a smooth surface.
 
Siber’s work is an experiment in seeing, in how he can alter perceptions not with iconography or commentary, but the sheer force of the tangible: form and physicality.
 
About the artist
Willi Siber studied sculpture under renowned German artist Herbert Baumann (1927-90), and has an extensive exhibition history in Europe. Has created public works for The German Parliament, art museums in Singen and Reutlingen and Deutsche Bank. His works have also been shown in art fairs across the world including ART Cologne, ART Frankfurt and KIAF Seoul.