'The Forest' 1959

Location: Library Vertigo 

Ben Guntenaar (1922) attends the National Academy of Visual Arts in Amsterdam. He teaches at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and does not decide on following his own creativity until later. In the beginning he works in a figurative and expressive style, as shown in 'The Forest' from 1959. After 1975 his works becomes ever more minimalist, architectonic and abstract. Guntenaar lives and works in the Dordogne for a long time, which he has frequented since 1960. There, too, he finds his favorite variety of stone, the vilhonneur, a light, colorful sandstone. In the quarry he seeks out a piece of stone and subsequently makes a division in it. The parts he works and arranges into a new whole, which lends a strongly architectonic quality to his later work.

See also: Vubis database

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