Galerie Maurits van de Laar

Technique: Wood, metal, plasticrete

Size: 115 x 53 x 25 cm

Authenticity: Work signed by the artist

Edition: Unique work

Price range: € 6.000 - € 8.000

Status: for sale

De Zon (groot), 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. The most recent sculptures are made of wood in simple geometric shapes in which forms are cut out. The Sun has a round lower body with sloping ascending lines and a chest that contains a circle from which rays shine out. The face is first scraped into a block of clay into which plasticrete, a type of arcyl resin, is then poured so that the positive shape emerges. Like a kind of sentinel, the figure carries a staff that ends in a curved spoon.