Ad Dekkers (artist)

Adriaan (Ad) Dekkers ( born March 21, 1938 in Nieuwpoort, The Netherlands, † February 27, 1974 in Gorinchem, The Netherlands) was a Dutch sculptor and artist relief.

Life

Ad Dekkers studied from 1954 to 1958 at the Academy of Fine Arts and Technical Sciences in Rotterdam. Dekkers was representative of the " think beeldend uit '60 " ( " visual thinking of the 60 " ) His art is based on the fundamental doctrines of De Stijl and the Bauhaus, but he used his own colors and its special material selection. Lived in the 1960s and 1970s and he worked in Gorinchem and Rotterdam.

Work

Dekkers art style is heavily influenced by Piet Mondrian. While he was still working in the years 1959-1963 with asymmetric shapes, he developed a symmetrical shape language in sculptural works. He published his artistic metallic concept in 1973 under the title Untiteled statement in Flash Art, re- printed in 1996.

Many of his works were so-called " stages of development ", relief-like objects, mostly made ​​of polyester, based on the basic geometric figures, for example, " square the circle ", " circle squared " or " double square with cross line ".

He had his first solo exhibition in 1966 at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and Galerie Swart, also in Amsterdam. His art got international attention. He was represented at the Biennale of São Paulo Christian Art in 1966 in Salzburg, at " White on White" in the same year at the Kunsthalle Bern and 1967 at the Expo in Montreal and the Biennale. With its five " stages of development ", he was a participant of the documenta 4 in Kassel in 1968. In the 1970s he was involved in the sculpture symposium Gorinchem. The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in 1998 honored him with a retrospective exhibition, 2009, the Gorcums Museum.