Für jeden ein Stück 2006

Siegfried Zademack made “Für jeden ein Stück” without any indication of when, but seeing it, I imagine the quiet concentration it took to make. It's like a dream, all these figures in white robes, each bent over, drawing a circle on the ground, maybe with charcoal or maybe it is a pencil, and the scale, wow. The desert-like ground stretches to the horizon, giving way to the pale sky. I wonder, did Zademack start with the figures or the ground? Did he have a plan or did it evolve organically? The muted palette makes me think of Agnes Martin, but where she found serenity, Zademack has something more unsettling going on. The endless repetition of the circle evokes a feeling of both ritual and…isolation. I can’t help but think about Sol LeWitt’s wall drawings, but with bodies and on a grand scale. Perhaps that is what the artist sought, the conversation with his piers and his own expression. We all do.