Special exhibition: sculptures and collectioned stuff
This year we have opted for a different set-up: we offer two experienced artists the opportunity to set up an exhibition consisting of their own work, supplemented with the work of other artists.
In 2023, Marry and Roel Teeuwen will exhibit several pieces, including previously unseen and new work. Marry Teeuwen curates and determines the image configurations and the garden in close collaboration with architect and owner of the sculpture garden Arthur Broek.
Marry Teeuwen
Marry Teeuwen (1945) graduated from the Academy of Arts in 1970, specializing in interior and furniture design. Squares and circles have an important place in her work. She combines a geometric form language with a material affected by time in almost all of her work. She proceeds from geometric shapes through strictly systematic interventions to extremely simple works that are initially flat, but later also spatial in character. Again and again she explores the possibilities of the visual means shape, line and color, in which autonomy, symmetry and repetition are the starting points for the creation of sober, yet powerful images.
Sculptures
Marry Teeuwen wants to give an overall picture of her work with the selected works that she will be exhibiting in the sculpture garden this summer. The works cover her entire career: there are works from the early days and also a new installation. A total of 6 large sculptures are coming to the sculpture garden in Ouddorp. Her new work, which she made especially for this exhibition, is a wonderful addition to her earlier work and together provides a nice insight into Marry’s total oeuvre.
Marry also uses some of the pavilions in the sculpture garden for her smaller wall works, which she sometimes reinterprets and reuses. With this she gives a fresh and new look at well-known pieces of art.
Collectioned stuff
One of the pavilions in the sculpture garden is decorated with Marry’s private collectioned stuff – small round or oval arrangements of objects found on the beach. Marry has not shown these works before. “It is work that belongs to me, but has remained out of the picture until now. This place, so close to the beach, and this garden, just asks to do something with this collection”, says Marry at the kitchen table in Alblasserdam. “You know, if I don’t do it now, I never will…. People here walk on the beach every day and that is of course just an excellent opportunity that I don’t want to let go. The collectioned stuff now have their own place in the garden – we call it the beach pavilion.”
Beach
Marry started her collectioned stuff years ago, first on a beach in Malaga and later also on Easter Island. “I don’t sit on the beach, I don’t like that at all, so you see something, and then you make something out of it. It really is searching, picking up, finding, taking home, big bags with nets and a bit of everything. It’s just a collection of beautiful things really because the things you pick up, you pick up because you like them. Then you don’t do anything else with it at home, because it’s always something different at home”, says Marry.
“I make jewelry with the found objects, as it were, with a lock of something with strings. I often make them on the beach and they stay there. Most beach jewelry no longer exists, they have been washed away again. It’s a different way of looking. You focus on details.”
Marry thinks the educational character of this place is important: “When I am working on the beach, I immediately have children around me who participate and get to work themselves. They learn to look. Their parents also start seeing things, take the bag and stuff home. So it works twice: you no longer have to pick up dirt, you now only pick up nice things. I think that is a different view of the whole.”
Roel Teeuwen
Roel Teeuwen (1944) was educated at the Academy of Arts in Rotterdam. He graduated there in 1970 with a series of bronze heads. The sculptor from Alblasserdam is inspired by nature. For his (often extensive) works he uses all possible materials, from concrete to gold leaf. Roel Teeuwen’s sculptures can be found in the Netherlands and abroad and have been exhibited in the Keukenhof, among other places. He regularly participates in symposia of artists in Asia and Latin America. Piet Augustin, former curator of contemporary art at the Gorcums Museum, characterizes Teeuwen’s work as “primeval forms that are timeless, not bound to place and from all cultures”.
Roel Teeuwen will show some of his existing large and smaller bronze sculptures and will also make a new work on site with twigs and branches in symbiosis with the garden.
Marry Teeuwen
Marry Teeuwen (1945) graduated from the Academy of Arts in 1970, specializing in interior and furniture design. Squares and circles have an important place in her work. She combines a geometric form language with a material affected by time in almost all of her work. She proceeds from geometric shapes through strictly systematic interventions to extremely simple works that are initially flat, but later also spatial in character. Again and again she explores the possibilities of the visual means shape, line and color, in which autonomy, symmetry and repetition are the starting points for the creation of sober, yet powerful images.
Sculptures
Marry Teeuwen wants to give an overall picture of her work with the selected works that she will be exhibiting in the sculpture garden this summer. The works cover her entire career: there are works from the early days and also a new installation. A total of 6 large sculptures are coming to the sculpture garden in Ouddorp. Her new work, which she made especially for this exhibition, is a wonderful addition to her earlier work and together provides a nice insight into Marry’s total oeuvre.
Marry also uses some of the pavilions in the sculpture garden for her smaller wall works, which she sometimes reinterprets and reuses. With this she gives a fresh and new look at well-known pieces of art.
Roel Teeuwen
Roel Teeuwen (1944) was educated at the Academy of Arts in Rotterdam. He graduated there in 1970 with a series of bronze heads. The sculptor from Alblasserdam is inspired by nature. For his (often extensive) works he uses all possible materials, from concrete to gold leaf. Roel Teeuwen’s sculptures can be found in the Netherlands and abroad and have been exhibited in the Keukenhof, among other places. He regularly participates in symposia of artists in Asia and Latin America. Piet Augustin, former curator of contemporary art at the Gorcums Museum, characterizes Teeuwen’s work as “primeval forms that are timeless, not bound to place and from all cultures”.
Roel Teeuwen will show some of his existing large and smaller bronze sculptures and will also make a new work on site with twigs and branches in symbiosis with the garden.
Special exhibition: sculptures and collectioned stuff
This year we have opted for a different set-up: we offer two experienced artists the opportunity to set up an exhibition consisting of their own work, supplemented with the work of other artists.
In 2023, Marry and Roel Teeuwen will exhibit several pieces, including previously unseen and new work. Marry Teeuwen curates and determines the image configurations and the garden in close collaboration with architect and owner of the sculpture garden Arthur Broek.
Collectioned stuff
One of the pavilions in the sculpture garden is decorated with Marry’s private collectioned stuff – small round or oval arrangements of objects found on the beach. Marry has not shown these works before. “It is work that belongs to me, but has remained out of the picture until now. This place, so close to the beach, and this garden, just asks to do something with this collection”, says Marry at the kitchen table in Alblasserdam. “You know, if I don’t do it now, I never will…. People here walk on the beach every day and that is of course just an excellent opportunity that I don’t want to let go. The collectioned stuff now have their own place in the garden – we call it the beach pavilion.”
Beach
Marry started her collectioned stuff years ago, first on a beach in Malaga and later also on Easter Island. “I don’t sit on the beach, I don’t like that at all, so you see something, and then you make something out of it. It really is searching, picking up, finding, taking home, big bags with nets and a bit of everything. It’s just a collection of beautiful things really because the things you pick up, you pick up because you like them. Then you don’t do anything else with it at home, because it’s always something different at home”, says Marry.
“I make jewelry with the found objects, as it were, with a lock of something with strings. I often make them on the beach and they stay there. Most beach jewelry no longer exists, they have been washed away again. It’s a different way of looking. You focus on details.”
Marry thinks the educational character of this place is important: “When I am working on the beach, I immediately have children around me who participate and get to work themselves. They learn to look. Their parents also start seeing things, take the bag and stuff home. So it works twice: you no longer have to pick up dirt, you now only pick up nice things. I think that is a different view of the whole.”