New sculptures
Opening Saturday 14 March 4-6 pm
Wednesday through Saturday 1.30 - 5.30 pm
The new sculptures by Reinoud Oudshoorn provide new experiences of space.
After his one man show at the yearly art fair Art Amsterdam 2008, he now presents a smaller series of new sculptures in the gallery, elaborating on the same shapes, formats, volumes, materials and techniques which he used before.
Oudshoorn's work begins when he sits and stares or looks at a flat white space, whether a sheet of paper or a wall. Gradually, the white space undergoes a transformation in his mind, into more dimensions. The next phase is to make sketches, some of which evolve into meticulous drawings.
The choice of material for the sculpture is connected to the chosen drawing itself and the technical possibilities of the material: iron is akin to graphite, wood is interesting because of the nerve lines, mat glass gives depth.
For Oudshoorn, a painting is too illusionary and a three-dimensional sculpture too real.
He has found a solution for this dilemma in sculptures that create space, sometimes on a wall, and sometimes on a floor.
The vanishing point (1 meter 65 eye level) that is at the base of most of his works refers to his experience in childhood of the morning mist in the woods where he grew up. To him the fog represented a magical feeling of infinity.
As all his works in an exhibition have this same vanishing point, the viewer experiences the feeling of a horizon, perhaps the magical feeling of infinity that the artist experienced in the morning mists of his childhood.
Works by Reinoud Oudshoorn >>
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