Hans Meeuwsen - 2024-48 nearly melt down

The artwork is made of porcelain, fired with oxidation at 1240°C. The wall thickness is approximately one millimeter, resulting in some transparency in the porcelain.
Because of the high firing temperature, the porcelain has begun to warp and deform in a beautiful process, producing a pleasing tension in this object.
The signature, in relief, is visible in the photos.
The artist has signed this work with a porcelain appliqué, on which his first name and the first letter of his surname appear.

The artwork is packaged in a custom-made wooden crate with a foam rubber lining.
During shipping, this crate will be packed using a 'box in box' method, with the space between the inner and outer packing filled with shock-absorbing material.

Hans Meeuwsen (1954, The Netherlands) graduated from the Visual Arts Academy in Tilburg to initially become a visual arts teacher at an upper secondary school. His main specialty was drawing, but he accidentally discovered the potential of clay as a visual arts medium. Rolling, pressing and cutting provided him with small flat clay squares that he used to build cubic shapes that looked like hermetically sealed cells.
A few years later he received national and international recognition with exhibitions in the Netherlands and Germany. Important works from that period include towers, pyramids and other constructions, some purely geometric abstractions, others interpretations of the mythical Tower of Babel. Hans further developed his ceramic skills during residencies at the European Ceramic Work Centre in the Netherlands and during working periods in New Zealand, Lithuania, and the Japanese island of Hirado.
During the most recent years he has further developed his ceramic skills and works with creamy white wafer-thin slices of porcelain that are mounted into cubes or pyramids. By stacking these geometric shapes in repetitive patterns he creates sculptures that are reminiscent of the Dutch Zero-movement and in particular the works by Jan Schoonhoven, but in the end clearly bears the artists’ own signature. He applies his decades-long experience to create a dialogue between inner and outer space, between geometric and organic, between order and chaos.
Hans Meeuwsen is a “Prix de Rome” nominee of 1987 and a Fletcher Challenge Ceramic merit award winner of 1992 and ever since then his work has found its way to many national and international collections.