Onno Boekhoudt - Iron Medal VVPK | 'Breaking down a wall is building a view' | 1999
- Description
- Onno Boekhoudt (1944-2002)
| Type of artwork | Sculpture / Object |
| Year | 1999 |
| Technique | Iron |
| Style | Minimalistic |
| Subject | Abstract |
| Dimensions | 9 x 9.5 x 2 cm (h x w x d) |
| Signed | Unsigned |
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Very beautiful and unusual medal by Onno Boekhoudt. Sought-after copy.
The medal is in good condition, due to the material used there is some usual 'rust formation' on it.
Onno Boekhoudt lived and worked in De Hoeve near Wolvega. The ornament is the subject of his work. He regularly takes side roads into sculpture and design, among other things. In 1997 he was awarded the Francoise van den Bosch Prize for his work. The horizontal rectangle expresses the wall. The metal plate is openwork; the building blocks of the wall are still recognizable in the directions of the lines. The lines together form a house. The point of the roof of the house is located in the middle at the top of the plane. Formally speaking, there is no front - both sides provide a clearly different entrance to the house and the given. A wall, not only the Berlin wall, represents a separation. What lies behind it is invisible, bad or dangerous. In this medal I try to question that idea. Building a wall, breaking down a view. At the same time, you can also see breaking down as a positive act. What is more beautiful than a view, a future? From Louk Tilanus' book Handzame Sculptuur: Boekhoudt was trained as a goldsmith at the Schoonhoven vocational school; he simultaneously studied sculpture at the Artibus evening school in Utrecht. The jewel is his starting point, but his playful creativity makes him at least as interested in the back as in the front of the objects he designs. The design itself deserves special mention in his work: he works from a surplus rather than a shortage. His medal 'To break down a wall is to build a view' was a selection from a wide range of hundreds of design sketches that came from his hands in paper, cardboard, wire, wood, copper, iron and other unconventional materials. The design that was chosen was executed in iron. Angular, sometimes almost sharp and it also smells a bit. Since Picasso and Gonzalez, iron has become a fully accepted medium in sculpture; Boekhoudt is therefore in good company. But big names are of course not enough: it is about how an artistic idea has been given plastic form. Now, that is great. Starting from the outline of a house - a house is in the Vision of CG Jung the symbol Of the soul - we see it receding as much as coming forward. What is taken away on one side, comes back on the other. Front and back are therefore always connected: a wall Gone, a view added; the tangible versus the intangible; matter versus air. Everything summarized in one design, and that too a choice from many. (source VVPK)
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| Condition | Very good | ||||||||||
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| Pick up | The work can be picked up on location. As a buyer you must bring your own packaging materials. The location is: Woudrichem, The Netherlands | ||||||||||
| Shipment | Parcel post | ||||||||||
| Price | Up to 10 kg.
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