In 1968, exactly 50 years ago, Carel Visser represented the Netherlands at the Biennale in Venice, where his presentation was awarded the American David Bright Foundation prize. In the beautiful crystalline spaces of the pavilion by architect Gerrit Rietveld, Visser showed a selection of wall pieces made of aluminum plates, among other things. In the abundant Venetian daylight that fell in through the glass roof, the surface reflected so strongly that the material almost seemed to dissolve, as with the polished bronze of Fisher's admired example Brancusi.
All the aluminum reliefs that Visser made between 1965 and 1968 in the run-up to the Biennale were no longer visible to the public until 2018, when BorzoGallery and The Mayor Gallery brought a very successful presentation of nine reliefs at Frieze Masters, London.