A01=Albin Saelens
A01=Johan Debruyne
Author_Albin Saelens
Author_Johan Debruyne
Category=AFKB
Category=AGA
Category=AGB
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Product details
- ISBN 9789058565662
- Dimensions: 260 x 311mm
- Publication Date: 12 Sep 2017
- Publisher: Stichting Kunstboek BVBA
- Publication City/Country: BE
- Product Form: Hardback
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Kobe, artistic alias of Jacques Saelens, has made sculptures that toy with two-dimensionality - his trademark. His broad, thin figures hardly make use of the third dimension and embody plenty of ambiguities. His brainchilds are lyrical; they look casual and carefree, but at the same time they are restrained by a formal straightjacket. His works radiate a contagious joyful simplicity, yet at the same time their construction is very thought through. They are born in the mind of a perfectionist and aesthete who continually strives to eradicate all that is anecdotal. Their round, feminine shapes and cheerful poses seduce, but their superhuman and mysterious calmness also exclude. Faces are closed and stripped of all personal traits. The female figure and the horse dominate the oeuvre, and his themes are classical, conforming to a long art historical tradition. The simplicity that radiates from Kobe's images conceals their ingenious - sometimes engineered - nature. Between the artist's idea and the finished image lies a world of abstraction and reasoning, a long period in which Kobe reflects on his initial inspiration and solves any structural problems.
