Ai Weiwei built a tree, assembled from trunks, roots and branches from his native China. He deliberately shows how pieces of camphor, cedar and ginkgo wood have been roughly joined together. Art critics each interpret the artwork in their own way. I see it as […]
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A wooden box by Peter Peer. You can make it in a single day. And what a wonderful day it is, working at the lathe. Peer’s infectious enthusiasm for woodturning makes the experience all the more enjoyable. A wooden box by Peter Peer, in my
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Silenzio is a landscape, a mountain ridge, a cloudy sky through which the moon is shining. Silence and solitude can help us find a new purpose in life. Silenzio, a sculpture that brought me back to those hopeful early days of Corporate Sustainability (CSR). When
In Dreams is a sculpture inspired by a painting by Gustav Klimt: Wasserschlangen II. This late work by Klimt is ‘Not on View’. It has disappeared into a heavy safe as an art investment, owned by the Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev. In Dreams, my wooden
Wild flutes, made by Anna Hakvoort, like those of Native Americans. Hakvoort carves them from beautiful branches she finds in the forest. The flutes sound beautiful and comforting. Wild flutes, made by Anna Hakvoort, presented in a rack. Anna Hakvoort (1960) likes to wander through
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Le Corbusier assembled a woman like a building. The world-famous French architect constructed the sculpture from geometric wooden forms, just as he designed buildings from clear volumes and proportions. Le Corbusier assembled a woman like a building, using 1.83 metres as the ‘human measure’. Le
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Dendroism activated on Instagram, with a special approach. A photo raises a question. What do you see here? A follow-up photo provides the answer. And immediately explains what Dendroism is. The Instagram account Dendroism has finally been activated. I had to give some thought to
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When Irena Posner matches wood with marble, something remarkable happens. Wood is warm, organic and relatively light. Stone, by contrast, is cold, hard and heavy. And yet the marriage is a loving one. When Irena Posner matches wood with marble, a remarkable tension emerges. The
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Totem poles are alive and kicking, with the latest example carved in 2026. How can that be? Aren’t totem poles supposed to belong to a distant past, somewhere along the Pacific West Coast of Canada and the United States? Nothing could be further from the
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Boris Paval Conen and the lessons of the master carvers of Val Gardena. The Dutch woodcarver was given the unique opportunity to attend the Summer Academy in this Valhalla of woodcarving in South Tyrol, Italy. No more than 20 people are admitted each year, following
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