Galerie Maurits van de Laar

Technique: Metal, wool, plaster

Size: 120 x 165 x 4 cm

Authenticity: Work signed by the artist

Edition: Unique work

Price range: € 4.000 - € 6.000

Status: for sale

No Title, 2023

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. The contours of the faces are first scraped out into a block of clay onto which plasticrete, a type of arcylic resin, is poured so that the positive shape of the face emerges. Simple geometric shapes and the reduced use of material show how little is needed to create a human figure. The composition of semicircles and contrasting material features creates a serene yet playful figure.