hans koenen
Mediums Used
His sculptures in bronze and stone of mainly female figures and sometimes a brief escape to animals, in a realistic or kind of imaginary figurative style. There is a development towards sculptures with larger openings, to make them `transparent` so that they more easily adapt to its environment. At the same time the openings do emphasize fragility and stimulate curiosity, perception and story line.
For building up sculptures he prefers to use shapes and structures that are found in nature.
The making of every single sculpture is a unique process of adapting and fine-tuning of ideas and feelings………. just like life.
Sculptures by hans koenen
Credentials
Qualifications
1969-1974 School of Advanced Engineering, Civil Engineering BSc,1969-1974 School of Advanced Engineering, Civil Engineering BSc
Exhibitions
yes
The base for sculpting was laid some 40 years ago. The ultimate challenge to make fine arts a daily assignment is of more recent date, since 2009.
Sculptor residing in Heeswijk-Dinther, the Netherlands, autodidact.
The path of life along drinking water and irrigation projects, bridges, schools and hospitals in mainly Africa and Eastern Europe has left its traces. Indelible values like opening yourself, true seeing of your environment, the capacity to identify yourself in your role, patience and creative power served first appropriate applications in technique and even more important to assure social cohesion between concerned parties and implementing teams.
His performance in this creative task was indissolubly connected to his wider artistic gift.
The alliance with people of past and present, in Africa and Europe and in particular woman are to him an endless source of inspiration. Once in a while there is an evasion to animals.
Underlying themes are vulnerability, love, movement but also global issues and threats, sustainability, scarcity of food and drinking water.
Michaelangelo, Henry Moore and Rodin inspired Hans Koenen already before his 20st year till present.
Public work of Hans Koenen is "Muze-Meisje" 2014 in Muzerijk, Uden NL
