"Jan Meyer-Rogge. Aktuelle Arbeiten", 2003
Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum, Hagen

Whether they are small model-scale sculptures or large ones, whether they are for display
indoors or out, the general theme of Jan Meyer-Rogge’s works, “balance,” cannot merely be
understood in the sense of gravitational forces and searching for their utmost points of rest,
which, once established, also always involve an intrinsic moment of restlessness. His works
are just as concerned with the cycles and moments of tension within forms that counteract
each other and correspond to one another, opposing forms that interact, building up and
winding down, the way tides do.

These open constructs do not refer to anything that they themselves do not achieve. They
are neither models nor metaphors for anything extraneous to their state of being, but rather
constructions that possess their own competence and legitimacy and actually represent the
laws that govern their particular behavior. The shifting of the center of gravity in the process
of reciprocal balancing is a phenomenon that anyone can grasp. A fundamental goal of these
works is nothing more or less than determining the point of rest between opposing motions—
the balance point as the instant of highest tension.