Clemens Briels (1946) - XI

Beautiful and colorful work by Clemens Briels
Technique: Color screen print
Edition: 147 of 200
Title: XI
Style: Antipodism
Framed size: 52.5 cm x 57 cm (w x h)
Image size: 29 cm x 32.5 cm (w x h)
Hand-signed bottom right of the image
Includes a beautiful silver-colored frame with glass and a passe-partout
Work can be collected or (well packaged) shipped.

Clemens Briels (born in Son, 1946) is a Dutch visual artist. In 1965 he began studies at the Academy for Industrial Design in Eindhoven with the aim of becoming an artist. Through various circumstances he ends up in the advertising world. He rises to successful art director, but at the age of 46 he decides to become an artist for good.

His works are now included in several renowned art collections. Clemens Briels was the first Dutch artist ever to be elected as Official Olympic Artist for the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City in 2002.

His work mainly consists of paintings and sculptures. His paintings are characterized by the use of bright colors and depth achieved through relief on the canvas.

Clemens Briels lives in the Dutch fortress town of Heusden, where his "Clemens Briels Art Centre" is also based.

Clemens Briels works predominantly with bright colors. He himself says about this: "I enjoy painting with bright colors. I don’t care much for gloomy canvases. Perhaps it has to do with the fact that I am an extrovert person." He draws his inspiration from his own experiential world, together with the impressions he gathers everywhere. He consciously does not want to get "involved" with trends. Briels: "I’m used to working from a commission in advertising. To meet strict requirements. I need that. I’m not someone who sits down and thinks, what shall I make now. I am basically my own client. If I create something, it must have a certain purpose. Then I am strongest." Behind Clemens Briels’s artworks there is always a story; his works are small anecdotes from a counter-society. Clemens Briels developed his own style, ANTIPODISM: he prefers to imagine the opposite of the stereotype, the conditioned. The viewer is confronted with a different, fantastical perspective on everyday things and is often surprised as a result.