Hans Meeuwsen - Relief

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Hans Meeuwsen - Relief

The artwork is made of porcelain, fired oxidizing at 1240 C. The wall thickness is about one millimeter, which results in some transparency in the porcelain. The piece features two inscriptions, with the first displaying the first name and the first letter of the last name, and the second displaying the Japanese characters Raku and Yakimono. On the back there are two cutouts from which the work can be hung. In the photos with the light background, the object is shown hanging. For shipping, this chest will be packed in a “box in box” arrangement, with the gap 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 in visual arts at an upper secondary school. His main specialty was drawing, but he accidentally discovered the potential of clay as a visual arts medium. Rolling, pressing and cutting produced small flat clay squares that he used to build cubic shapes looking like hermetically sealed cells. A few years later he gained national and international recognition with exhibitions in The Netherlands and Germany. Important works from that period include towers, pyramids and other constructions, some being pure geometric abstractions, others being 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 by working 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 ever since then his work has found its way into many national and international collections.

Estimate:$787.65

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