Aan Victor Servranckx
1975
Pol Spilliaert
We see an accumulation of more or less spherical volumes in pink Portuguese marble. Though structure is not symmetrical, it is balanced. At the same time, the spherical volumes are bursting with energy. They seem to detach themselves from the whole to lead a life of their own. Pol Spilliaert invites us to discover the relationships between the parts: between bottom and top, right and left, front and back.
Details
- Plan number: D012
- Zone: Open-air depot
- Title: Aan Victor Servranckx
- Creator: Pol Spilliaert
- Date: 1975
- Material: marble, concrete
- Acquisition: loan Collectie Vlaamse Gemeenschap
- Object number: MID.LB.BK.03094
The title refers to Belgian artist Victor Servranckx. the spheres refer to the many circles in his work. Spilliaert was working on the first version of this sculpture when he saw a broadcast on television following Servranckx’s death. It is an ode to this pioneer of Belgian abstract art.
Belgian sculptor Pol Spilliaert creates abstract work, preferably in marble. The (highly stylized) man-woman theme often recurs from the 1960s onward. Proportion and rhythm are central to his compositions. “Personally, I see a sculpture as a play of forms with space, in which rhythm and proportion constitute the value of the play.”
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