Abundance & Chaos, Cast Iron 96
“I am a clay person; it is my preferred medium. It is strong and fragile at the same time and therefore expresses best what I am trying to say."
Hanneke Beaumont (1947, NL) wants to express the universal rather than the individual of human beings. Beaumont's human figures are androgynous and show no specific personal traits; they are not portraits. They emerge from the artist's imagination and their postures and facial features are generic. They often exude an atmosphere of human fragility and anticipation prior to a decision. And sometimes a surprising decisiveness appears in a pose.