Clemens Briels (1946) - XI

Beautiful and colorful work by Clemens Briels
Technique: color screen print
Edition: 147 of 200
Title: XI
Style: Antipodisme
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 lower right of the image
Includes a beautiful silver-colored frame with glass and matting
Work can be picked up or (well packaged) shipped.

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

His works are now included in several renowned art collections. Clemens Briels was elected as the very first Dutch artist to be 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 vivid colors and a sense of depth achieved 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 vivid 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 me being 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’m used to working from a brief in advertising. To meet strict conditions. I need that. I’m not someone who sits down and thinks what shall I make now. I am basically my own client. When I make something, it has to have a certain purpose. Then I am at my strongest." Behind Clemens Briels’s artworks lies always a story; his works are small anecdotes from a contrasting society. Clemens Briels developed his own style, ANTIPODISME: he prefers to imagine the opposite of the stereotypical, the learned. The viewer is confronted with another, imaginative perspective on everyday things and is frequently surprised.