At Art Island Galerie Maurits van de Laar shows spatial works and drawings by Dirk Zoete (1969) in room 30.
His 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 of Oskar Schlemmer's Triadic Ballet.
Drik Zoete first makes a cardboard version of the statues that is transferred to metal and then painted in such a way that the sketchiness of the paper model is preserved. 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.
In the stand, the sculptures are presented on four tables, accompanied by pastel drawings, masks and figures made of metal strips, wool, wood plaster on the walls.