2026 - 20 Wit minimalistisch wandrelief

The artwork is made of porcelain, oxidatively fired at 1240 C. The wall thickness is about one millimeter.
There is a recess at the back to which the artwork can be hung. In the first five photos with the light background, the object is shown hanging.

This is a unique handmade object.
The artist signed this work with two porcelain applications; one bears his first name and the first letter of his last name, while the other features two Japanese characters, Raku and Yakimono.

During shipping, this crate will be packed 'box in box,' with the space in between filled with shock-absorbing environmentally friendly 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.