Terforations – complex structures made of paper, space, and time
Angela Glajcar certainly chooses an out-of-the-ordinary material, namely paper, to create her sculptures, some of which have truly monumental proportions. While the use of papier-mâché in sculpting is nothing new, Angela Glajcar’s approach is, if not unusual or bizarre, then very particular and striking in terms of its radical purism: She exclusively uses sheets of white paper, out of which she tears parts. Relying only on mechanical fixtures, she then assembles these torn sheets one in front of another to form her sculptures and installations. This extreme minimalism in her working method is not the product of some programmatic concept, as it arose almost by coincidence, but it is definitely now a unique, characterizing feature of her output ..."

                        Margareta Sandhofer

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"From out of the Material beyond the Material ... Angela Glajcar is a sculptor: she rips and perforates paper. Softness is hardness, and the tenderness is monumental. As an artistic material, paper only recently made its way into the third dimension ..."

                        Michael Hübl

Full catalogue, 96 pages, with colored images of all major works in paper and plastic that were created between 2007 and 2009, as well as site-specific installations, e.g. in the KV Ludwigshafen, Kulturamt der Stadt Frankfurt/M. and the CODA Museum Appeldorn

Editor: Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld,
ISBN 978-3-86678-284-6 (edition is out of print)

"... Angela Glajcar is one of those outstanding practitioners of the fine arts whom the State of Rhineland-Palatinate has furthered and continues to further to a special degree. For her sensitivity in handling movement and space, she received the Asterstein Scholarship of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate in 1999/2000 and has since then developed consistently ..."

Prof. Dr. E. Jürgen Zöllner,
Minister für Wissenschaft, Weiterbildung, Forschung und Kultur

Full catalogue, 88 pages, with colored images of all major works of paper and plastic that were created between 2003 and 2006 to the series: Contrarius, Terforation, Papierschatten and Lichtschatten.

Editor: Chorus Verlag für Kunst und Wissenschaft, Mainz, ISBN 3-931876-64-0 (edition is out of print)