Clemens Briels (1946) - XI

Beautiful and colorful work by Clemens Briels
Technique: Color screen print
Edition: 147 of 200
Title: XI
Style: Antipodism
Dimensions incl. frame: 52.5 cm x 57 cm (w x h)
Image itself: 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 picked up or shipped (well packed).

Clemens Briels (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.
Due to a variety of circumstances he ends up in the advertising world. He rises to a successful art director, but at the age of 46 he decisively decides to become an artist.

His works are now included in several renowned art collections. Clemens Briels was the first Dutch artist to be named “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 the depth created by applying relief to the canvas.

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

Clemens Briels works predominantly with bright colors. He himself says about this: "I enjoy painting with bright colors. I don’t like those dreary canvases much. Perhaps it has to do with the fact that I am an extrovert person." He draws his inspiration from his own perceptual world, together with the impressions he gathers everywhere. He deliberately does not want to get involved with trends. Briels: "I am used from advertising to working from a brief. To meet strict requirements. I need that. I am not someone who sits down and thinks what will I make this time. I am, in fact, my own client. If I make something, it has to have a certain purpose. Then I am strongest." Behind Clemens Briels’ artworks there is always a story; his works are small anecdotes from a contrasting society. Clemens Briels developed his own style, Antipodism: he prefers to depict the opposite of the stereotypical, the learned. The viewer is confronted with a different, fantastical view of everyday things and is often surprised as a result.