Video: Abstract sculptures from the Hering / Kalsbeek duo
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Liet Heringa and Maarten van Kalsbeek have been a creative duo for over 10 years. They work with different materials and in different techniques, but rarely depart from their main genre - sculpture, which in their performance looks like a fantastic fusion of various natural and artificial elements.
A wide variety of materials are used to create the sculptures of the authors: dried flowers, feathers, porcelain and coral fabric, as well as resin and polyurethane. As a result of this combination, the works of the duet are beautiful and repulsive at the same time. The sculptors' works are, of course, abstract, but Liet and Martin do not impose their own opinions on the viewer in the interpretation of objects and do not facilitate the task by giving their works names. Thus, visitors to the exhibitions of the creative duo are completely free in their judgments and fantasies regarding what they saw.
The duo creates sculptures in which “controlled randomness” is an integral part of the creative process. While trying to limit their role as “creators”, authors at the same time avoid excessive control over the direction in which the work is being created. Liet and Martin prefer to work in pairs: holding each other, challenging the opponent's opinion, combining their efforts, they thereby achieve the required results.
Liet Hering and Martin van Kalsbeek are Dutch sculptors living and working in Amsterdam. Exhibitions of their work are held in various cities in the Netherlands, as well as Korea and Germany.
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