Carel
Nicolaas Visser ( 1928 - 2015) was a Dutch sculptor. He is considered an
important representative of Dutch abstract-minimalist constructivism
in sculpture.From 1948 until 1949 Visser studied architecture at the
Technical University in Delft and subsequently from 1949 until 1951
sculpture at the Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague. After study in
England and France, he settled as an independent artist in 1952 in
Amsterdam.
Carel Visser is seen as one of the most important
constructivist sculptors of the Netherlands. His later work is
characterized by the assembly of a variety of materials, such as
tires, oil drums, car windows, leather, sheepskin, eggs and so on. He
made organized connections, a kind of assemblages, with this
so-called great and sometimes small objets trouvés (found objects).
Some of his work has been compared to a musical composition in which
repetition and variation play an important role.
Around 1960,
Visser was focussed on massive closed cube of iron and "slack"
cube wire. Visser, among other things, was inspired by nature (plants
and animals) which also explains his use of natural materials such as
wood, wool, sand, feathers, bones, rope and leather.His works from
the period 1975-1985 could be called environments, as opposed to the
more sculptural work as the dying horse (about 1949).Wikipedia
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