Category / The Art of Seeing

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Carry Hate

………..    Carry Hate

In front of you and harmony behind.

Be deaf to music and to beauty blind.

Win war. Rise bloody, maybe not too late

For having first to civilize a space

Wherein to play your violin with grace.
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Lines from the poem
‘First Fight. Then Fiddle’
by Gwendolyn Brooks,1949

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Carry Hate (Staff # 71)  125cm. < # 70  #>74

 

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I.M. Enrico Castellani

24 – 27 giugno 2022 Bar San Rocco, Piazza S. Rocco 12 Celleno (VT)

 The picture shows a box decorated with a staff.  It is the container of the staff entitled: I.M. Enrico Castellani (and numbered #81).  

     The painted container and the sculpture  are my tributes to Enrico Castellani’s works of art; his formalist poems in silver and white. Most of all I like his paper stack. Spartito, 1969/2004.  
(Read more of Enrico Castellani in The Guardian)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
It is also a tribute to Celleno where he lived until his death in December 2017. Celleno where I like to work in wintertime.  Celleno reminds me of the village I grew up in. All people connected. Connectivity and reunion are my subjects in my art practice. 

     In the village I grew up in, there lived a painter at the time. His studio was located between kindergarten and home.  At a friend’s house during primary school, I saw one of his gloomy but yet intriguing paintings of a swamp. Before I left the village to go to high-school, I tried to get up the nerve to interview him in his studio. 
He answered my questions while he was working on a painting. At one point he pushed his brush in purple paint – I was afraid he was distracted or irritated because of my questions and would soon spoil the painting with this ugly purple. The opposite happened, the painting gained more meaning instead! It was an eye-opening event!   
     In Celleno I hoped for an equally inspiring meeting, but in fact I was a  month too late; when I arrived in January 2018 Enrico Castellani had just passed away, aged 87.  
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 Some months later I made these ‘poems’ in black, white and gold dedicated to the artist Enrico Castellani and his direct environment.   
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Staff # 81 I.M. Enrico Castellani
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Mother & Child

On view in Museum van Alle Tijden, Oeffeltseweg 21, 5835 BB Beugen

July 4 2021 – September 5 2021. 24/7

Inspired by the medieval polychromatic wooden sculptures of mother and child, Frank Bezemer explores contemporary relationships between mother and child. ( Anneke with staf # 97, also known as maatstaf II, and Taeke with staf #14 )

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Lotta Continua 

When you possess guts combined with a talent to criticize, there is a constant threat of losing your friends, your job and your comfortable life, which tricks you into resignation. Staff #53 is a tribute to those who continue the fight to better the world. People like Miriam Makeba, Adriano Sofri, Nasrin Sotoudeh, Kamel Daoud ,Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Dom Phillips

Staff # 53.     92cm/ 36 ‘

< # 52. >  # 54

 

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Find Contents in Future and Past, find Paradise in Between II

The greater part of this staff has kept its natural characteristics. The top is covered with gold, two lower parts are blackened by fire, and five polished parts at elbow height are suggesting a comfortable grip.
Staff nr 70 tells the story of relating the physical here and now with the mental import of future and past .   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Staff # 70   177cm/ 69′.   (Related to # 46 )    < # 69   > # 71