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CARRY ME

made in China (2009)          stone, 60 x 160 cm          collection: Adriaan Rees

Carry Me at the exhibition 'Screaming in a bucket and other stories' at C-Space (2009) - Beijing, China

Sya van 't Vlie

art historian, 2009

Carry me is a granite pine cone. Rees had it cut by local stone masons to his specifications after a real pine cone, which he found ten years ago somewhere in France. It is his second work in stone. In 1994 he made his first one, De Steenhouwer. Softer than granite he nevertheless found it a laborious undertaking, never to be repeated again.

 

Because in China he could contract out all the heavy handiwork which made him decide that carving stone was not his thing, he decided to have a go at it once more. So in Carry me, Rees restricted his own contribution to finding and keeping the cone, selecting the granite from which the cone is cut, and giving directions as to its size, polishing, and so on.

Carry me at Anningahof (2014) - Zwolle, The Netherlands

pictures by Buitenbeeld in Beeld

Exhibitions

2019-20

 

2018-19

 

2013-18

 

2011

 

2011

 

2009-10

'Witboek / The White Album' - museum Beelden aan Zee, Scheveningen, NL

group exhibition Kunstzolder sculpture garden, Lembeke, Belgium

group exhibition Anningahof, Zwolle, NL

group exhibition Den Haag Sculptuur, Den Haag, NL

• 'Zoekende Reiziger' - Gemeentelijke Expositieruimte Kampen, Kampen, NL

• 'Screaming in a bucket and other stories' - C-Space, Beijing, China

Carry me at Den Haag Sculptuur (2011) - Den Haag, The Netherlands

picture by Akbar Simonse

Carry me (la la la version) at museum Beelden aan Zee (2019) - Scheveningen, The Netherlands

picture by Ronald van Wieren

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