Sculptor Carel Visser (86) deceased – nrc.nl

Archive Photo: Carel Visser focuses in the Zonnehof in Amersfoort an exhibition of his work. One of the highlights of his work is this mammoth of 1995. Photo ANP / Raymond Rutting

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In his hometown of Le Fousseret in southern France tonight the Dutch artist Carel Visser deceased, reports news agency ANP. Fisher has become 86 years

Gallery Borzo in Amsterdam, where in May the exhibition “Carel Visser – Counterbalance.” Will be opened, made the Fisherman of death unknown. Visser Borzo as “an unconventional sculptor, standing on the shoulders of his great example Brancusi”.

The artist, who also designed jewelry, working with steel and glass, eggs and feathers, wool and leather. His first pictures emerged in the forties: subtle human and ornamental figures of welded iron. In the 50s and 60s he built on the principles of Mondrian New Plastic with robust iron sculptures in geometric shapes. In post-war Netherlands was the abstract language of Fisherman according Borzo a novelty.

In addition to images Fisher also made drawings, collages and houtsneden.Volgens NRC -kunstredacteur Sandra Smallenburg Carel Visser of the most important postwar Dutch sculptors.

“Like his American colleagues Sol LeWitt and Carl Andre, he was sixty prominence in the years with its geometric, completely abstract sculptures of industrial materials like rusty steel and concrete. Later, from the seventies, he also made use of more natural materials such as sand, wool, feathers and even ostrich eggs.

Also that fit the zeitgeist: Italian Arte Povera artists were also working on that, and in Britain made Richard Long geometric shapes of wood and stone. Nature was Visser always a great inspiration. Are stacked images derived their rhythm of growth forms, his drawings he based on patterns in the water “

Visser received several awards during his life. In 1972 he was awarded the State Prize for art and architecture in 1992 the Art Prize of Amsterdam and in 2004 he received the Wilhelmina-ring 2004, the national biennial award for sculpture

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