2026 - 29 rood minimalistisch wandrelief

The artwork is made of porcelain, fired in oxidation atmosphere at 1240°C. The wall thickness is about one millimeter; the porcelain is finished with two layers of porcelain that have been colored with a red pigment.

The work is signed with two applications; on the first the name and on the second the Japanese characters raku and yakimono.

On the back there is a recess to which the work can be hung. In the first five photos with the light background, the object is depicted hanging.

For shipping this box will be packed as a “box in box,” with the gap filled with shock-absorbing, environmentally friendly material.

Hans Meeuwsen (1954, The Netherlands) graduated from the Academy of Visual Arts in Tilburg to initially become a visual arts teacher at an upper secondary school. His main specialization 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 resembling hermetically sealed cells.

A few years later he received national and international recognition with exhibitions in The Netherlands and Germany. Important works from that time include towers, pyramids and other constructions, some being pure geometric abstractions, others being 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 working periods in New Zealand, Lithuania and the Japanese island 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 bearing the artist’s 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.