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Sculptures

artist

Gerard Holmens

period

1962

dimensions

22 × 20 × 62 cm

Gerard Holmens studied at the Municipal Art Academy of Ostend (1951-53), the Academy of Antwerp (1955-56), that of Ghent (1957-58), and at “La Grande Chaumière” in Paris with Ossip Zadkine;Around 1955 Holmens departed from a stylized figuration: vegetal compositions and imaginary animals; his search led in 1965 to mobile stone sculptures; after a trip to Ireland, the sculpture cycle “De Stilte” (The Silence) was born.Since 1981 he lived in Vieuzos, France (Ht. the Pyrenees); there, he created a new series of works, a neo-romantic or neo-symbolist figuration, around the theme of the table, chair, vehicle, laden with the symbolism of life and death, meaning and meaninglessness, eroticism, fatum, horrorauthor of the Léon Spilliaert monument (1964; Canadaplein public garden, Ostend).