Clemens Maassen - art & design

Open studio days in Maastricht some time in May, I should have posted this quite some time ago as a kind of preview...

absolutely gorgeous chairs, some of them with reclaimed material like the Dutch post sack...

... or an embroidered piece of needlecraft from the artist's mother

beautiful lighting, not quite visible in the picture because of the busy backdrop

Next to being a furniture builder and lighting designer, Clemens Maassen is also a painter. 

Those who follow my blog know I do love artists' studios.

looking for the bits you won't find in the galleries... the work space and material

and off course the art itself...

the paintings on this wall are the reason why the work of Clemens Maassen and myself were brought together in an exhibition with theme : urbanisation... more on that - and more paintings - in the next post

detail of Verborgen Stad (Hidden City)

www.clemensmaassen.nl

 

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Arbus Reïnc - land art in the orchard

scrap wood light

Unusual dark days for the end of summer here... we need to switch on the light in the middle of the day

wood from our house...

Hilda de Schutter - Scrap Wood Light 1

H with shade 82cm

H wooden base 48cm

W - D 15cm

more recycled projects in the pages on the right.

more upcycled toys

Last year someone gave me a box filled with lego-like plastic building blocks. They were at least thirty years old.  A thorough treatment (up to 3!) in the dishwasher and cotton tips to take away the last bits of dirt kept me busy for a while...

The accompanying notice gave instructions to build this little house.

but then I decided to design my own - out of the ordinary - construction with the blocks available...

hildA de schutter - Toylight 3

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Toylight 1

more small projects with reUsed items in my blogpages on the right...



second life of toys

Discovered an unfinished project I made exactly a year ago... it is time to mount it on a base to finish it.

Hilda De Schutter - Toy Light 1

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playing with toys

Oshu(n)mare

Today, I'm delivering my Good Mood Light named
Oshumare
at the Afrikamuseum in Tervuren - Belgium, for the upcoming exhibition Lumineus-Lumineux.

In Yoruba mythology, Oshunmare (also Oshumare, Oxumare) is a divine serpent which is believed to create the rainbow, both male and female, and is a symbol of creation, human procreation and the link between the world of the mundane and that of the ancestors

Ochumare (Oshumare, Oxumare) - rainbow deity, divinity of movement and activity, guardian of children
source : Wikipedia


Lumineus - Lumineux
15 May - end of August 2011
part of Fetish Modernity exhibition
Afrikamuseum




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Good Mood Lights

biza'rt - new kid in town

biza'rt  
studio - gallery - shop

in the historical centre of Antwerp

Let's start in the cellar.  Two vaulted rooms make a great gallery. 

Lighting by fiber artist An Lanckman who has more items in the shop upstairs.

During the month of April 2011 Dirk Eelen and Bruno Raymaekers show their latest works.

Bruno Raymaekers (BE) - Brezhnew listening to Rachmaninov

Bruno Raymaekers - Treetrunk Ferrari

Bruno Raymaekers - Fred - detail

and more...

Dirk Eelen

Dirk Eelen - paintings on the left

with more works in the upstairs space

Dirk Eelen on the wall

lighting by Erik Reynders

Dirk Eelen on the wall

lighting by Erik Reynders

the work space of jewelry designer Sofie Vanoosthuyse, owner of biza'rt

Sofie Vanoosthuyse

Sofie Vanoosthuyse

ceramic work by Jan Vander Elst

more Jan Vander Elst

Colourful sunny dresses waiting for the sun.

biza'rt

Wijngaardstraat 18 - 2000 Antwerp, Belgium

A great little shop to discover

www.bizart-antwerpen.be/

www.dirkeelen.com/

Erik Reynders

Jan Vander Elst

The two exhibiting artists and Jan Vander Elst are participating in the Open studio tour in Leuven April 30 and May 1.  More info on http://www.kunstroute-leuven.be/.

(I'm skipping my participation this year too, my situation is a bit too chaotic just now to have visitors in my studio).

not the artists mentionned above...

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Dirk Eelen's studio 2 years ago



SLOW LIVING

a green furniture expo

A - not so good - picture taken from a moving escalator.  The space is a bit too small to have a good view on all the furniture on show.

Peter Schumacher (AUS) - Leaf Lamp - felt and wood

www.greenfurniture.se/

Fabien Cappello - Christmas Stool

www.fabiencappello.com/

Maria Westerberg - The T-shirt Chair

www.mariawesterberg.se/

Tree

Godspeed, Finn Ahlgren & Joy van Erven - Three and a half pallet

www.weareonlyinitforthemoney.com/

Michele Bussein - Growing Chair

SLOW LIVING

Kulturhuset Stockholm - Ecoteket

until May 25, 2011

posts on other exhibitions going on in this great Cultural Centre in the next days.

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growing-furniture