Silent light, two-part, each part
113x75x1,2cm, anodized aluminum, 2011 (photo Peter Cox)
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So Far, two-part, multiple, each
part 20x8,5x1cm, anodized aluminum, 2012 (photo Peter Cox)
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Wald L, two-part, each part
60x47x1,2cm, anodized aluminum, 2013 (photo Peter Cox)
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Wald L, two-part, each part
60x47x1,2cm, anodized aluminum, 2013 (photo Peter Cox)
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Very likely, two-part, each part 63,5x62x1,2cm, 2012 (photo Peter Cox) |
Exhibtion View ‘Wind Swept’ Corona
Unger, Bremen, 2013 (photo Bjoern Behrens)
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Two centuries black, two-part,
each part 45x27x0,8cm, hot rolled steel, 2011 (photo Peter Cox)
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Orange tide III, 200x89x1cm, anodized aluminum, 2010 (photo Peter Cox) |
Exhibition View ‘Wind Swept’
Corona Unger, Bremen, 2013 (photo Bjoern Behrens)
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Cecilia Vissers is an internationally exhibiting visual artist, in 1993 she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in ’s Hertogenbosch, Netherlands. Recent shows include Masters&Pelavin, New York, Nouvelles Images Gallery, The Hague, Corona Unger Gallery, Bremen.
Cecilia Vissers’ sculptures and installations
are grounded in the remote landscapes of Scotland and Ireland.
- Cecilia Vissers
"Since the 1960s, a
number of artists, for different reasons, have taken the decision to repeat a
single practice, or to make one ongoing piece, throughout their working lives.
The Single Road will explore
the implications of this attitude and commitment.
The sculptor Cecilia Vissers
is one such example. She has been exhibiting since 1994. Gradually over time
the focus of her art narrowed, until, by 2006, she decided only to work in
anodised aluminium and steel. Inspired by the directness and plainness of
minimalism, she regards the materials she uses and her approach towards them as
the consistent factor for all her work. The alterations she makes between each
piece and the next are negligible, and consist, essentially, of modifications
to the shape of a rectangle or a square. But she stresses these
differences are slight by comparison to the emphasis she places on the
continuity of her work."
- Dr. Alistiar Rider, ‘the
single road’, Feb. 2013, UK
"Cecilia
Vissers’ wall sculptures are fully autonomous objects, introverted, useless,
beautiful, present and unusable. They appear to be created never to betray the
process of their origin. Purely in terms of visual tensions it is not clear
whether the object has been shaped because there were incisions (from the
outside), or whether the material has shaped itself (from the inside).
Memories
of the sublime landscapes of Ireland and Scotland with poetic names like
Blacksod Bay, Canna, Gaoth, guide Cecilia's activities in the studio. Halfway
between memory and the here-and-now an important role is assigned to her
stunning and beautiful photographs that introduce a first phase of abstraction
to the artistic process.
From the
landscapes Cecilia loves, she also brings in the combination of the weight of
matter and the transparency of atmosphere: matter as in the sheer weight of her
sculptures, atmosphere as in their shining colour. Every proportion, every
curve in her work is carefully considered and reconsidered, as repeated hikes
through a specific landscape shed new light on it every time. It's the nature
of the natural landscape that it never repeats itself. This unfolding is what
each of her work asks us to observe, because there's nothing static about them.
Even a square is not a square."
- Cees de Boer, art historian, Amsterdam, NL
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