Barbara Kluiver

The sculptures made by Barbara Kluiver consist fragmentend body-parts and the daily experience is taken as subject. Elements of universal, everyday life-experiences are enlarged and distorted. Not exposing the attractiveness but rather what's underneath, the misery.
Barbara Kluiver works with diferent materials like aluminium, cement, polyester, fiber and wood. Elements from the environment are often part of her sculptures.
In 'Yes mother', she has carved a figure from a block of wood but maintains the elements of the tree trunk to interact with the human form. Clever..

1985-1990 Academie Minerva Groningen, The Netherlands
2008-2010 Hoge school voor de Kunst Utrecht, The Netherlands

2011 Keukenhof Lisse, The Netherlands
2011 Singer Museum Laren, The Netherlands
2011 Hortus Amsterdam, Metamorfosen, The Netherlands