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Pinky Messchaert – Sculpturer
The desire to create has always been present in Pinky's life.
As a child she brought home all kind of things that she found on the street, seeing their potential to play and transform them. It was no surprise when she decided to go to the Art Academy. In 1979 she graduated as Monumental Designer at the Art Academy of Utrecht.
After a few years working as a designer, she took a different direction and started to focus on free work. At first she worked primarily with wood, but in time she discovered that this material didn't give her enough creative opportunities and began to work with metal. Her contemporary statues are often built from old thrown away materials, found on the street, in containers and scrapyards.
The artistic trend were you could place her work is assemblage art. During her wood-period her work was mainly abstract, in recent years her art-work is more figurative.
The artistic process seldom starts with an already chosen subject. More likely, the proces starts with intens looking at the 'harvest' of found objects and then getting inspired by typical or specific forms of these objects. Next, the creating proces starts with the patient game of building, assembling and or removing parts, which leads to a beautiful new creation.
The now created statue, is signed by the past and ready for a new future.
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