Jan Wils

Kind- 21st Century Contemporary Dutch Sculpture of Aluminium

2020

Marjolein 76 x 26 x 15 cm Bronze The theme van der Kraan likes most is to show the growing of young girls. Living in their own world. Like this girl watching something she likes. Th...

Dutch artist Frans van Straaten (1963) should be called an artist of balance always searching for harmony between force and movement in combination ...

These three sculptures are made by Dutch artist Antoinette Briet. Her forms always are an abstraction of movement or stillness in the world of animals. In these particular sculptures...

This Sculpture is made by Dutch artist Antoinette Briet. Her forms always are an abstraction of movement in the world of animals. In this particular sculpture she shows here admirati...

This owl is made from oak. The peace and power that both emanate from this monumental eagle owl is probably hidden in the actual format (lifelike) and the deep-set eye sockets. Beaut...

This squirrel is made by Dutch Artist Frans van Straaten. Van Straaten should be called an artist of balance always searching for harmony between force and movement in combination with space. Because of the wide range in his art-education he has mastered the art of drawing, painting and sculpting technology. However, the classical plastic art of sculpture and modelling opens up the possibility for him to create his own language of sculpture in answer to his urge for art. Due to this style of sculpting, the preference for bronze is natural. After his study of sculpture at the Academy of Art in Rotterdam (1988), Frans van Straaten creates bronze sculptures in which he unites force and movement. Feeling and Emotion converted into Matter Sculpture is an experience of space combined with the challenge of the three-dimensional. The tension of space and movement are the themes, which Frans expresses in his sculptures. Summary it can be said that the power of life and being, the feeling and emotion by force and movement will be converted into matter. The experience of space is being expressed in the shapes and characters in each of Frans’ sculptures. His sculptures of bulls express explosive power while the horses find their strength in being elegant. Each sculpture recalls this way their own association and serves as a metaphor for a certain emotion. Feelings, which has inspired the artist for each sculpture. Powerful and Elegant Looking at the works of this artist, it becomes very clear that one of his most important sources is his background in art history. The Renaissance period as well as several Italian artists served as inspiration to Frans as a sculpture. For instance the expressions in Leonardo da Vinci’s artworks, and also Giovanni Bologna...

Dancing Lady is an iconic form of David Hostetler's. His first Dancing Lady was carved in white oak and painted in 1979. It wasn't until the early 1990's that David revisited this fo...

Resin sculpture. Limited and signed edition number 48 of 50. Richard Orlinski is a French artist born in Paris (France) in 1966. Sculptor since 2004, his work, conceived around th...

Resin sculpture. Limited and signed edition number 4 of 4. Richard Orlinski is a French artist born in Paris (France) in 1966. Sculptor since 2004, his work, conceived around the ...

Resin sculpture. Limited and signed edition number 8 of 8. Richard Orlinski is a French artist born in Paris (France) in 1966. Sculptor since 2004, his work, conceived around the ...

Red metallic on resin. Signed and numbered limited edition number 7 of 8. Richard Orlinski is a French artist born in Paris (France) in 1966. Sculptor since 2004, his work, concei...

Signed and numbered limited edition #2 of 8. Idan Zareski is a French-Israeli artist born in Haifa, Israel. Life would take him through many countries, bearing witness to diverse cu...