Hans Meeuwsen - Relief

The artwork is made of porcelain, oxide-fired at 1240°C. The wall thickness is about one millimeter, which results in some transparency in the porcelain. The work is signed with two applications, the first bearing the first name and the initial of the surname and the second bearing the Japanese characters Raku and Yakimono. On the reverse there is a recess to which the work can be hung. In the first five photos with the light background, the object is shown hanging. For shipping, this crate will be packed in a “box in box” manner, with the intervening space filled with shock-absorbing, environmentally friendly material. Hans Meeuwsen (1954, The Netherlands) graduated from the Visual Arts Academy in Tilburg to initially become a teacher of visual arts at an upper secondary school. His main specialization was drawing, but he accidentally discovered the potential of clay as a visual arts medium. Rolling, pressing and cutting provided him with small flat clay squares that he used to build cubic shapes resembling hermetically closed cells. A few years later he gained national and international recognition with exhibitions in the Netherlands and Germany. Important works from that time include towers, pyramids and other constructions, some purely geometric abstractions, others interpretations of the mythical Tower of Babel. Hans further developed his ceramic skills during residencies at the European Ceramic Work Centre in the Netherlands and during work periods in New Zealand, Lithuania and the Japanese island of Hirado. During the most recent years he has further developed his ceramic skills and works with creamy white wafer-thin slices of porcelain that are mounted into cubes or pyramids. By stacking these geometric shapes in repetitive patterns he creates sculptures that are reminiscent of the Dutch Zero Movement and, in particular, the works by Jan Schoonhoven, but ultimately clearly bear the artist's own signature. He applies his decades-long experience to create a dialogue between inner and outer space, between geometric and organic, between order and chaos. Hans Meeuwsen is a Prix de Rome nominee of 1987 and a Fletcher Challenge Ceramic Merit Award winner of 1992, and since then his work has found its way into many national and international collections.

Estimate:$560.11

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