Helena Kaori Maeda

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

About Helena Kaori Maeda

Kaori is from Japanese origin, born and brought up in Brazil, living in the Netherlands. Drawing since child, later she follows Fine Arts and Philosophy studies. Contrasts and balance, Western and Easter influences, thoughts and feelings, struggle in a cord dance. Her sketches wake up in folded paper, in wooden panels, sculptures, and it's variations, using mixed materials, acrylic, gouache, wood, metal and textile. The possibilities existent between paper and form, 2D and 3D, result in her wall sculptures/ panels. Kinetic sculptures are made together with sculptor Frank Hietbrink, complementing each others work. In her drawings and paintings abstraction and figuration are complementary. Love of nature and animals, some places are revealed in alternating instinctive and careful brushstrokes to symbolic patterns and empty spaces. Sculptor and master Cleber Machado has influenced her 3D working process. Grateful to Jenny Wesly friendship, mentoring and trust.

Education:

University of Sao Paulo, USP — Bachelor in Philosophy, 1989-1996
Art Academie, Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado, FAAP, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1984-1987

Events:

Group exhibition 12 July - 6 October 2019
NDSM-Plein 85, 1033 WC Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Netherlands
www.ndsm-fuse.eu

Exhibitions:

-Duo exhibition: Helena Kaori Maeda & Frank Hietbrink Kinetic sculptures, 2 - 25 November 2018, NDSM Fuse, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. www.ndsm-fuse.nl
-Group exhibition 27 July - 25 November 2018
NDSM-Plein 85, 1033 WC Amsterdam, The Netherlands
-OPEN NDSM ateliers, 13 October 2018
-NDSM plein 25, 1033 WB Amsterdam, The Netherlands
-NDSM group exhibition in Amsterdam 2018
-Art Fair Parallax in London 21st - 22nd October 2017
-Open day Ateliers NDSM 7-8 October 2017
-Exhibition open day ateliers ADM; Amsterdam, Netherland - 2000
-Collectief sculpture exhibition; Museu Brasileiro da Escultura - Mube, Sao Paulo, Brazil - 1996