Galerie Maurits van de Laar

Technique: Metal, metal paint

Size: 97 x 45 x 15 cm

Authenticity: Work signed by the artist

Edition: Unique work

Price range: € 6.000 - € 8.000

Status: for sale

The Prayer, 2024

Dirk Zoete's stylized human figures are composed of geometric shapes, touching and playful in their utmost simplicity. They seem to be distant cousins of Malevich's suprematist figures or the costumes from Oskar Schlemmer's Triadic Ballet. With 'The Prayer', Zoete creates a figure in a meditative state. The composition of the triangles that form the torso and lower body create a balanced, closed impression that still has dynamism because the left leg is shorter than the right. The rounded blue face is reminiscent of the helmet of armor and enhances the contemplative and mysterious character of the statue. Dirk Zoete first makes a cardboard version of the sculptures that is then transferred to metal and then painted in such a way that the sketchiness of the paper model is preserved.