After first being banished to the waste container, wood is completely back in interior design. This is noticed by artist Christine Langerhorst (1937), who already ran galleries with wooden art objects in Utrecht in the 1960s. Langerhorst makes magnificent books of wood. She was born […]
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A man sits on the stump of a tree trunk and plays a singing saw. As if mourning the sawn-down forest. The small painting is a typical Teun Hocks (1947 – 2022). On almost all his works he has depicted himself, as a man lost
The artist Femmy Otten (1981) conquers musea with her wood-carved artworks. With her impressive solo exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, she lifted wood sculpting out of the realm of craftsmanship by exploring major themes such as sexuality, womanhood, motherhood and vulnerability. The largest and
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Her wooden rug invites jokes. Like: ‘This carpet no longer needs to be beaten’. In the art world, however, the work of Selva Aparicio is taken very seriously. This rug carved out of an oak floor, for example, is about ‘memories from my childhood’. Selva
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The first monk in the world had woodworm problems. What to do? A reflection on this masterpiece by German sculptor Tilman Riemenschneider. The faces of wooden sculptures from the 15th and 16th centuries look very dated today. Those high shaved foreheads of the women. All
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The heat of the tropical night. The ocean black and blue. A mouth tells stories. A memory of Bonaire, the paradise of the Netherlands in the Caribbean. The history of carving in wood began with a flat surface. Beginning wood carvers also start with a
Wind ripples. Ripples, in English. The sea creates them on the beach when the water retreats at low tide. The wind creates them in the drifting sand in the dunes. On a very windy day on the beach of IJmuiden I saw how they formed.
Her name is Zazia and she lives or lived in Ukraine. I would so much like to know: is she still alive? How is she doing? I have a photo of her, with hair waving in the wind. The ice-cold storm from the east had
The miniatures carved from wood by Adam Dircksz date from the 16th century and are so small that you need a magnifying glass to study them properly. About 135 to 150 of these carved miniatures of boxwood have been preserved. They are owned by various
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Janson’s Art Bible Ignores Wooden Sculptures. The authoritative Janson’s piles one error upon another blunder when it comes to artworks made of wood. There are plenty of such sculptures. The P+ Special ‘A Correction to Art History’ (2022) showed in 20 pages concealed wooden works
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