Fruits of Love
text by Clare Lilley
- Author(s)
- Clare Lilley
- Publication, year
- Brussels : Roberto Polo Gallery, 2015
- Scope
- 88 Pages, illustrated, 31 cm.
- ISBN
- 9791092599084
Over time, glass has become Maria Roosen’s recognised medium, but it wasn’t always so. Graduating from the rigorous and ambitious Moller Instituut Tilburg in 1981, she chose to go onto the Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten in Arnhem, where a multidisciplinary approach allowed students to direct themselves towards and within subject areas, rather than being defined by a single one. Continuing the work that she had developed at Tilburg, and allowing herself the time to find her feet, Roosen began by making linocuts; eventually, turning to sculpture, she found that the department, which had been located in a wonderful Rietveld-designed building, had been closed to reduce costs. Undeterred, and perhaps because of the lack of instruction or direction, she established a studio and began making ambitious sculptures in wood, foam and textiles; part readymade, part constructivist, something about the body.
- Person as subject
- Maria Roosen
- Location
- Cabinet 7 - 2: Kunstenaars
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