Maarten Stuer Folk Art

A ceramic sculpture "Orbis" by Maarten Stuer. This piece can be put indoor or outdoor. Artist monogram under the base. 2020. Unique piece.

A stoneware sculpture by Maarten Stuer entitled "Poussière ruban". Artist monogram at the base. 2016. Unique piece.

A big stoneware sculpture entitled "Poussière ruban" by Maarten Stuer. Perfect original conditions. Unique piece. Artist monogram at the base. 2016. Awards 2002 Enku Awards competition, Japan 2004 Competition ‘Une oeuvre pour l’Hôpital St.-Augustin’, Wilrijk, Antwerp, Belgium Private & collaborative exhibitions 2015 Galerie Gendras Regnier, Paris ‘Hors Socle’, McCG Giroussens Galerie Faider, Brussels 2014 Galerie Koustak, Fourcès 2013 Pavillon des Arts et du Design, Galerie Silbereis, London, UK ‘IN BETWEEN – inner and outer walkscapes’, Château de Gaasbeek, Brussels, Belgium Pavillon des Arts et du Design, Galerie Silbereis, Paris, France 2012 ‘L’Espace des métamorphoses’, Chapelle de la Miséricorde, Vallauris, France ‘Meister der Modernen / Modern Masters’, Munich, Germany 2011 ‘Chemins d’Art en Armagnac’, Lavoir de Lasdouts, Gondrin, France ‘La Matière et l’imagination’, CEBIKO, Incheon, Korea ‘Ode Bertrand...

A big stoneware sculpture by Maarten Stuer. Perfect original conditions. Unique piece. Artist monogram at the base. 2016. Everything is connected. Water, earth, fire, air and the firmament. These natural elements sometimes come together, which can lead to fireworks but also creativity and beauty. Take clay modelling, for example, which goes back to the dawn of time. Particularly if we are to believe the many founding myths that come to us from around the world. A demiurge or a divinity breathes life into a human figure, fashioned from clay. Later, this creature steals fire from the god. The ability to make and control fire marks the true genesis of the human race. The theory of evolution confirms this view. «The discovery of fire is probably the greatest, excepting language, ever made by man,» writes Charles Darwin (1803-1882). We use fire for protection, to provide warmth and light, Cook food, make pottery, forge weapons, dominate nature and our fellow men, explore the world… even destroy it. Thus to control fire implies that we also control ourselves. The big bang is within us. We share this same energy of fire with the tiniest particle in the most distant galaxy. Do these particles also contain the faculty for intelligence and happiness? In the hands of Maarten Stuer (Yokohama, 1965), clay no longer seems compact, heavy or inert. Through his imposing ceramic sculptures, he gives this, the ultimate earthly substance, an almost cosmic dimension. The inspiration for his abstract formal language comes from the elements, or from simple, organic, natural structures.* *[text by Joris Capenberghs, curator of «In Between - Entre cieux et terre», Gaasbeek and Groenenberg (Belgium), 2013] Born in 1965, in Yokohama, Japan. Lives and works: ‘Maison Poche’, 32 110 Caupenne d’Armagnac, in the Gers département, South-West France. Public collections Musée National de la Céramique, Sèvres, France Fondation Ateliers d’Art de France, Paris, France Collection départementale du Conseil Général des Landes, France Awards 2002 Enku Awards competition, Japan 2004 Competition ‘Une oeuvre pour l’Hôpital St.-Augustin’, Wilrijk, Antwerp, Belgium Private & collaborative exhibitions 2015 Galerie Gendras Regnier, Paris ‘Hors Socle’, McCG Giroussens Galerie Faider, Brussels 2014 Galerie Koustak, Fourcès 2013 Pavillon des Arts et du Design, Galerie Silbereis, London, UK ‘IN BETWEEN – inner and outer walkscapes’, Château de Gaasbeek, Brussels, Belgium Pavillon des Arts et du Design, Galerie Silbereis, Paris, France 2012 ‘L’Espace des métamorphoses’, Chapelle de la Miséricorde, Vallauris, France ‘Meister der Modernen / Modern Masters’, Munich, Germany 2011 ‘Chemins d’Art en Armagnac’, Lavoir de Lasdouts, Gondrin, France ‘La Matière et l’imagination’, CEBIKO, Incheon, Korea ‘Ode Bertrand, paintings & Maarten Stuer, ceramics’, Atelier Rue du Soleil, Fraissé-des-Corbières, France ‘Terre Féconde’, Maison de la Céramique Contemporaine, Giroussens, France 2010 ‘Ceramics circuit: the Contemporary scene’, Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris, France ‘Regards Complices’, Musée Languedocien, Montpellier, France ‘Ultra Dentelles !’, Paris, France ‘Espace Mayorga’, Suhescun, France ‘Sculptures’, Centre d’Art Contemporain Raymond-Farbos, Mont-de-Marsan, France ‘Maarten Stuer’, Abbaye de la Sauve-Majeure, France ‘Quatre artistes au Château de Lagrange-Monrepos’, Nérac, France ‘Niki Nakamura & Maarten Stuer’, Galerie A Vous de voir, Saint-Mathurin-sur-Loire, France ‘Francis Vloeberghs & Maarten Stuer’, Galerie Faider, Brussels, Belgium 2009 ‘Poussières, sculptures de Maarten Stuer’, Abbaye d’Arthous, Hastingues, France ‘Hors-série, Galerie éphémère’, Paris, France ‘Les Journées de la Céramique’, Place Saint-Sulpice, Paris, France 2008 ‘Mouvements’, Galerie Collection d’Ateliers d’Art de France, Paris, France ‘Autour et à Travers’, Galerie Lieu-Dit, Hédé, France ‘Les Journées de la Céramique’, Place Saint-Sulpice, Paris, France Festival international de la Céramique, Arthous, France ‘La Lumière en la matière’, McCG, Giroussens, France 2007 ‘Maarten Stuer & Annelies Slabbynck’, Gallery De Mijlpaal, Heusden-Zolder, Belgium Triennale européenne de la Céramique et du Verre, Mons, Belgium ‘Quartiers d’été’, Galerie Courants d’Arts, Revel, France 2006 ‘Formes Libres’, Galerie Courants d’Arts, Revel, France ‘22 Contemporary ceramics works’, Grenoble, France ‘Ganzendries 2006’, Ghent, Belgium 2005 ‘Sculptures’, Maison Palmans-De Ridder, Antwerp, Belgium ‘Triptych’, Gallery De Mijlpaal, Heusden-Zolder, Belgium 2004 ‘Maarten Stuer - de l’Autre rive – Sculptures’, MJC Philippe-Desforges, Nancy, France ‘Winners of the Henry van de Velde Awards’, Galerie Vizo, Brussels, Belgium ‘Issus de la même Terre’, Flanders Design Gallery, Brussels, Belgium ‘Art in a Box’, Gallery De Mijlpaal, Heusden-Zolder, Belgium ‘Contemporary Flemish Ceramists’, Musée des Beaux-Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland ‘Siate piacevole’, Gallery De Mijlpaal, Heusden-Zolder, Belgium ‘World Design Exchange’, Oullim, Korea ‘Winners of the Henry van de Velde Awards’, Flanders Design Gallery, Brussels, Belgium 2003 ‘Maarten Stuer meets Poul Kjærholm’, in collaboration with Fritz Hansen Benelux, Antwerp, Belgium ‘Z.I.’, Galerie l’Acadie, Cajarc, France ‘Sculpture Argile’, Toulouse, France ‘Huis van stilte’, Gallery De Mijlpaal, Hasselt, Belgium 2002 ‘Sprekende vormen’, Gallery De Mijlpaal, Heusden-Zolder ‘Omweg’, Gallery De Mijlpaal, Heusden-Zolder, Belgium ‘De Nieuwe Oogst’, Flanders Design Gallery, Brussels, Belgium 2001 ‘Drie installaties’, Europese erfgoed, Antwerp, Belgium ‘Galerie l’Acadie’, Cajarc, France 2000 ‘Installations, OEuvres 1999 – 2000’, Galerie Le Refuge...

A ceramic sculpture by Maarten Stuer. Unique piece. Artist monogram at the base, circa 2010.