Donald Evans
1974
watercolor
on paper
Donald Evans in Amsterdam
In the year 2005 - when I
was already getting a little bit tired of making big installations and
sculptures (transporting, storing and sometimes deconstructing them...) - a
friend gave me this book: 'The world of Donald Evans' by Willy Eisenhart.
I had never heard of the
artist Donald Evans before. He was an US-American, born in 1945 who came from
New York to the Netherlands in the early 70's and died at the age of thirty-one
in a fire in Amsterdam.
His artwork was inventing and painting nearly 4000 very small watercolour-paintings that look like stamps.
I was fascinated by the contrast of his very small equipment and the huge world he has created.
His artwork was inventing and painting nearly 4000 very small watercolour-paintings that look like stamps.
I was fascinated by the contrast of his very small equipment and the huge world he has created.
In 2007 I decided to start
a series of small sculptures on ground plates 35 cm by 35 cm, a kind of
3-dimensional 'stamps', which led to a new found freedom and I am still working
on it, counting about onehundredandfifty now...
Lutz
Weidler, 2014
Lutz Weidler
Weltmodelle
2010-2013
different
materials on plywood
35
x 35 cm (each)
Lutz Weidler (DE)
Weltmodelle No. 131, 142,
74 and 148
2010-2013
different
materials on plywood
35
x 35 cm (4x)
