Monique Kwist (1965)
Dutch Artist

THINGS YOU NEED!!

THEMES: architecture, void, light, form and anti-form, travelling, quiet activities

PRODUCTS: Poured objects of various materials, works on paper, print making with intriguing graphic techniques like photographic etching and embossment. The work is both sensitive in material and has different layers in meaning, Careful processes can be observed in the material.

WEBSITE
On this website you'll find a selection of my work from about the last 4 years.
Only a small part of the quality can be shown by means of these photographs. Sometimes I'll add new series, to keep it 'up to date', so it's allways under construction. ( For more documentation on 3 dimensional objects before 2006 you can click below on the link to the first website.) I'll give a short personal explanation in the following text.

I hope you will be motivated to take the time for a closer look on this material if it suits the themes that you are living and working for.
Please call or send an e-mail to get in touch with me. You are welcome to visit my studio in Amersfoort by appointment.

LISTEN....IT GIVES A SILENT REPLY

Since 1990 my path of interest is light, architecture and space. I try to create space in-between my hands which does not need to be large to give that suggestion.

I follow experiment and investigation from one work to the other. The products all together can be understood like a growing village with squares and streets, surprises and houses and churches for whatever meditation. The maker is doing exercises in the surrounding landscape. Sometimes she is building new walls or only putting a stone aside to make room for a plant and then add a window or balcony to get a better view. You could also find her digging canals and sources....
Physical and mental spaces to dwell in are very useful to clean our minds and to feel alive. In my work I want to focus on creating these things.

By travelling to other cultures I did quite a bit of research, as I feel a need to escape the limits of frontiers and spatial boundaries. Travelling and working deep into South America influenced my life and artistic development. As a result the work shows a quality of other cultures and landscapes, as well as a different flow of time.


COMMISSIONED WORK
In case you are looking for a change in your surrounding -interior- space, I would be glad developing an alteration, installation or artwork under commission. Some of the series are ideas or models which can be transformed in reference to the given surroundings. One of the examples is the "cornersolution" found in the profolio (Objects). Forgotten corners and "dead walls" can be brought back to life!

LINK TO ARCHIVE:
For more documentation on sculptures and poured objects you can have a look in my first website.

~~~~~graphic design and advise: http://www.o2design.nl/

ARTIST
STUDIO address:
Ch. de Bourbonlaan 18C
3818 DJ Amersfoort
The Netherlands

 

 moniquekwist@hotmail.com