Kobe : Ingenious Simplicity
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
9058565661
ISBN-13
9789058565662
Publisher
Stichting Kunstboek BVBA
Imprint
Stichting Kunstboek BVBA
Country of Manufacture
BE
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 12th, 2017
Print length
252 Pages
Weight
2,164 grams
Dimensions
26.80 x 32.20 x 2.70 cms
Product Classification:
Art & design styles: from c 1960SculptureIndividual artists, art monographs
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A study of the sculptor Kobe, including his central themes, his repeated motifs, ad his intricate work process.
Kobe, artistic alias of Jacques Saelens, has made sculptures that toy with two-dimensionality - his trademark. His broad, thin figures hardly make use of the third dimension and embody plenty of ambiguities. His brainchilds are lyrical; they look casual and carefree, but at the same time they are restrained by a formal straightjacket. His works radiate a contagious joyful simplicity, yet at the same time their construction is very thought through. They are born in the mind of a perfectionist and aesthete who continually strives to eradicate all that is anecdotal. Their round, feminine shapes and cheerful poses seduce, but their superhuman and mysterious calmness also exclude. Faces are closed and stripped of all personal traits. The female figure and the horse dominate the oeuvre, and his themes are classical, conforming to a long art historical tradition. The simplicity that radiates from Kobe''s images conceals their ingenious - sometimes engineered - nature. Between the artist''s idea and the finished image lies a world of abstraction and reasoning, a long period in which Kobe reflects on his initial inspiration and solves any structural problems.Text in English, Dutch and French.
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