Does Isamu Noguchi bend down for a soap, a posture about which many risqué jokes exist? It is a posture best avoided in communal shower rooms of prisons. However, the work is listed under a very descriptive title: Boy Looking through Legs. Does Isamu Noguchi […]
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Richard Long built wooden circles from tree trunks, branches or from weathered wreckage wood. He collected the material for these temporary constructions in the immediate vicinity of where he exhibited. Sometimes even in nature itself. Richard Long built wooden circles from branches like this California
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The African Period of Picasso did not last long, from the summer of 1907 to the autumn of 1908. But the impact on his development was enormous and led to Cubism. A wooden female figure from 1907 could just as well have been carved by
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Masters of the Middle Ages. The website Wowwood.nl shows various influential sculptors from the Middle Ages and early Renaissance. Among the well-known names there are also numerous wood carvers who operated from the Low Countries and what later became the Netherlands. Adriaen van Wesel carved
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Louise Nevelson made monuments from found wood: assemblages of crates, chair legs, turned spindles, columns and door panels. She assembled all the loose parts into architectural installations and painted them matte black. The Centre Pompidou in Metz (France) shows her ‘monuments’ this year (2026). Rain
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On rising seas depicts Poseidon emerging from the waves. The Greek god is more powerful and vengeful than ever. Due to the warming seas and oceans, increasingly powerful hurricanes are plaguing humanity. On rising seas shows the Greek sea god Poseidon, looking up, at a
Where’s that wolf? is a wooden panel about the hunt for the Dutch ‘problem wolf’ Bram who was missing for months. Eventually the animal was shot. Where’s that wolf? Take a good look at the right curtain. On my panel too the wolf is not
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On the Beach is about a sun worshipper. She is on the beach with a golden shell as a hat. A lying ‘razor clam’ serves as a pedestal. On the Beach, enjoying the sun. On the Beach is a follow-up to the commission to make
The Idol of Samos is one of the few surviving wooden sculptures from classical antiquity. The figurine was carved around 650 BC in Greece. The painting or even the dressing of this ‘idol’ has perished over the centuries. The Idol of Samos: was it the
First primitive art, then Western art, then tourist souvenir. This is how one of the most popular wooden tourist souvenirs from Bali came full circle; that of the weeping Buddhist monk. Left the ‘Crouching Figure’ by André Derain, right the wooden ‘Weeping Monk’ from Bali.
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