Hans Van de Bovenkamp Sculptural Philosophy

Biography

Hans Van de Bovenkamp is a sculptor who has earned an international reputation over the past 45 years for designing, fabricating, installing and maintaining unique sculptures and fountains in collaboration with architects and designers.

Renowned for his monumental sculpture created primarily for open-air public locales, Hans Van de Bovenkamp has been described as an artist-mystic whose work—with its signature power, lyricism and grand proportions—heightens the viewer’s sense of fantasy, imagination and discovery.

From the primordial human urge to make “sacred space,” Van de Bovenkamp has created an oeuvre significant for the way his decisions about scale, material, content and form dynamically interact with the natural and architectural world that surrounds his sculptures. Cascading water becomes a curtain in “Ottowa Falls” with their sinuous, animated curves, his giant cloud and “fiddlehead” forms function as metaphors for the vital life force in all organic forms; his circle and wave series balances floating, lyrical units above anchored ring-like forms, denoting the sun, the moon, the ocean. And his bronze and stainless steel Menhirs—with their indistinguishable eroticism and spirituality—look back to the prehistoric, sacred, upright monumental stones built in the Neolithic and Early Bronze ages.

His works can be seen in public, civic, corporate and private collections.

He has executed over 100 commissions.

Spring 2006

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