EXHIBITIONS SCULPTURE GARDEN
HELEEN LEVANO "Face to face".
For this first exhibition in the Waterland Sculpture Garden the Broek in Waterland resident professional sculptor Heleen Levano compiled a special selection from her works entitled "Face to face".
The renowned Dutch sculptor Eric Claus about Heleen Levano:
"The studio of Heleen is completely filled with human heads made out of clay, bronze or stone, sitting between smaller sculptures, some of them wrapped in plastic like mysterious objects. A cluttered studio with molds, clay presses, ceramic ovens and work tables, hardly giving way to move around. Most portraits have not been made as commissions. They look like notes in clay to capture something important. The chamotte portraits often have a color tone of engobe (the colors of the earth), sparsely used and helping to accentuate the shape. Looking at the glazed white sculptures one can be reminded of the sculptor Della Robia, spotless white en for ever beautiful.
The portraits originate from the mind of Heleen, molded without the use of drawings or sketches. In this way a character is born and not a look alike. The shapes are often being molded roughly, shapes that hold each other, jump over each other, tumbling in and around the egg shape of a human portrait with accentuated cheekbones or a sharply pointed chin, soft cheeks, hollow eye sockets with eyes like slumbering little balls, looking at you sharply or reject you in a haughty way".
