在他2016年的作品《收藏家的房子》(The collectorr ’s House)中,Op de Beeck设计了一个2600平方英尺的单色空间,在这里,游客是唯一的颜色元素。这个博物馆式的装置包括几个真人大小的雕塑,一个图书馆、一架大钢琴、一套家具、散落的静物,以及一个恰好位于工作中心的睡莲池。他在一份艺术家的声明中解释说,这幅作品和他的许多作品一样,旨在刺激观众的感官,创造出一种视觉虚构的形式,表现出瞬间的惊奇、沉默和内省。Op de Beeck目前在布鲁塞尔和Gooik工作。
The Collector’s House, sculptural installation, 2016. Coated wood, coated polyester, pigmented plaster, PU, metal, glass, 20 × 12.5 × 4 mBelgian artist Hans Op de Beeck creates life-size figural sculptures and immersive environments from materials such as coated wood, polyester, and pigmented plaster. These chosen materials turn his constructed figures and installations into a uniform shade of matte gray, which makes the viewer feel as if the world around them has been zapped of color.In his 2016 work The Collector’s House, Op de Beeck produced a 2,600-square-foot monochrome space in which visitors served as the only element of color. The museum-like installation contained several life-size sculpted figures in addition to a library, grand piano, furniture, scattered still lifes, and a lily pool positioned squarely at the work’s center. This work, like many in his practice aimed to stimulate the viewer’s senses and to “create a form of visual fiction that delivers a moment of wonder, silence and introspection,he explained in an artist statement.Op de Beeck currently works in both Brussels and Gooik, Belgium. Over the last decade, Op de Beeck has mounted institution-based solo exhibitions at museums across the US and Europe, including the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (2010), MOCA Cleveland (2014), and Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (2017). You can view more of his lifelike figures and installations on his website.The Collector’s House, sculptural installation, 2016. Coated wood, coated polyester, pigmented plaster, PU, metal, glass, 20 × 12.5 × 4 mThe Collector’s House, sculptural installation, 2016. Coated wood, coated polyester, pigmented plaster, PU, metal, glass, 20 × 12.5 × 4 mTatiana (Soap Bubble), sculpture, 2017. Polyester, wood, polyamideSleeping Girl, sculpture, 2017. Mixed MediaBrian, sculpture, 2018. Polyester, glass, coatingTatiana (Butterfly), sculpture, 2017. Polyester, wood, polyamideThe Garden Room, sculptural installation, 2017