Helena Kaori Maeda

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

About Helena Kaori Maeda

Figurative mix abstract drawings and paintings, perceptions are related to her interaction with nature, animals and places, alternating instinctive and careful brushstrokes to symbolic patterns and empty spaces. Western and easter influences reactions, thoughts and feelings, struggles a kind of lines & forms cord dance. The sketches wakes up in folded paper, in wooden panels, sculptures, and it's variations, using acrylic, gouache, wood, metal and textile. Exploring the possibilities existent between paper and form, 2D and 3D, resulting in wall sculptures / panels. Helena Kaori Maeda is from Japanese origin, born and brought up in Brazil, where she studied at FAAP Art Academy and Philosophy at USP, living in the Netherlands. Artist Cleber Machado influenced her work and later Jenny Wesly mentoring influenced to rethink art. https://helenakaorimaeda.wixsite.com/helenakaorimaeda

Education:

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

Events:

NDSM group exhibition in Amsterdam from 26t May 2018

Exhibition: Helena Kaori Maeda & Frank Hietbrink sculptures
Movement in metal, wood and textile.
22 October - 12 November 2018

www.ndsm-fuse.nl

Exhibitions:

NDSM group exhibition in Amsterdam from 26t May 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