Category: Organic

T-bone (Still Life 3)

index of sculptures 1988 to 2024

T-bone (Still Life 3)

2024
Bas-relief in salvaged wood, 176 x 155 x 18cm

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Studio Visit – 25 March 2024
just had a visit from butcher Chiel Neef. He came by to check what I’d done with his T-bone steak. A while ago I had asked at Sligro wholesale, a bit down the street from us, for the the Ultimate T-bone steak. I explained that it was for an art project. This made Chiel rather curious. He gave me the steak for free on the condition that he could come to see the end result. I’m glad he was very satisfied with it. All the details had the correct appearance; like the way the bone looks and the black flakiness of the dried edge. He was also glad that the meat had the correct ratio, with a relatively small tenderloin. But of course that was his own contribution, after all I had asked him for the ultimate cut!






Part of the Alluvial Plain exhibition at Ron Mandos gallery, Amsterdam in December 2024.

Jericho

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Jericho

2020
Bas-relief in salvaged wood #129, 184 x 153 x 15cm.








Jericho is the second bas-relief based on photo’s of a tree stump in the Yosemite valley in California. The first one, made in 2013, was titled Holocene. Such a cross section forms a record of time, while it also demonstrates our brutal relationship with nature. Jericho was made in 2020. This time the decaying chunk of wood is rendered in red, white and blue, a color scheme familiar from many national flags. The title references the tower of Jericho which today itself rather resembles a fossilized tree trunk. That tower is one of the oldest monumental structures, built around 10.000 years ago at the dawn of the agricultural revolution. It is located in the Palestinian West Bank, today an area in crisis.

View of the tower from the east showing both openings.
Image source: http://antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/barkai327/

Part of the Alluvial Plain exhibition at Ron Mandos gallery, Amsterdam in December 2024.

Lambchop

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Lambchop (Still Life 2)

2019
Bas-relief in salvaged wood #127, 189 x 112 x 14cm.
Collection Museum LAM, Lisse, Netherlands.




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Team Mandos installing the Markers exhibition.


Part of the Markers exhibition at Ron Mandos gallery, Amsterdam in 2020.

Hatchet Job

index of sculptures 1988 to 2024

Hatchet Job

2016
Bas-relief in salvaged wood #111, 239 x 148 x 16cm.
Private collection, London, United Kingdom.

Hatchet Job on the studio wall in 2016.

Preliminary sketch for Hatchet Job.


All the works that were part of the Bare Bones exhibition at Ron Mandos Gallery in Amsterdam in 2016.

Holocene

index of sculptures 1988 to 2024

Holocene

2013
Bas-relief in salvaged wood #99, 160 x 168 x 16cm.
Private collection, Rotterdam, Netherlands.



The Holocene is a geological epoch which began at the end of the Pleistocene some 12,000 years ago, coinciding with the earliest signs of the Neolithic Revolution (the change from hunting and gathering to agriculture). It continues to the present. The Holocene has been identified with the current warm period, and can be considered an interglacial in the current ice age. The Holocene also encompasses the expansion of the human population and its impact on the world environment, and is therefore sometimes called the Anthropocene.
(source: wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene)




Made for the The factory Set retrospective at the Kunsthal in Rotterdam 2014/15. A total of 37 bas reliefs were shown. Most of them on loan.

Tree/Bridge

index of sculptures 1988 to 2024

Tree/Bridge

2012
Bas-relief in salvaged wood #83, 305 x 100 x 12cm (made for a curved wall, radius 10m).
Part of the Mirror Lake project, a large site specific installation on commission for The State of the Netherlands.





Part of the Mirror Lake project; 2011-2013:

Section II

index of sculptures 1988 to 2024

Cross-Section II

2012
Bas-relief in salvaged wood #82, 220 x 122 x 12cm.
Part of the Mirror Lake project, a large site specific installation on commission for The State of the Netherlands.




Part of the Mirror Lake project; 2011-2013:

Section I

index of sculptures 1988 to 2024

Cross-Section I

2011
Bas-relief in salvaged wood #80, 189 x 113 x 12cm.
Part of the Mirror Lake project, a large site specific installation on commission for The State of the Netherlands.


A marker tracing from the construction process used as endpapers to the book the Factory Set.




Part of the Mirror Lake project; 2011-2013:

Wood Stack

index of sculptures 1988 to 2024

s.t. (Wood Stack)

2011
Bas-relief in salvaged wood #72, 165 x 106 x 14cm.
Private collection, Telluride, Colorado, United States.




Part of the Perishables solo presentation at the Ambach & Rice booth, The Armory Show fair, New York, NY, USA in 2011.

Still Life

index of sculptures 1988 to 2024

Still Life

2010
Bas-relief in salvaged wood #71, 180 x 102 x 12cm.
Collection of Gennaro Picone & Susan Nestel, New York, NY, USA.

Some of the source material for Still Life.




Part of the Perishables solo presentation at the Ambach & Rice booth, The Armory Show fair, New York, NY, USA in 2011.

On Re-Entry

index of sculptures 1988 to 2024

On Re-Entry (Burning Log)

2010
Bas-relief in salvaged wood #63, 262 x 87 x 12 cm.
Collection of Leslie and Dale Chihuly, Seattle, Washington, United States.

Sewer outlet on the river Ganga. The rear image of On Re-Entry . 





Part of the Shallow Wade exhibition in 2010 at OkOk gallery, in Seattle, WA, USA.