Lex Hogenhout, Shelter, Netherlands, 1970s, Metal

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Lex Hogenhout 'Shelter I' The Netherlands 1970s from the series 'Shelter', late 1970s.

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About Lex Hogenhout Lex Hogenhout (1956, The Netherlands) explores shelter as both refuge and constraint. He places the act of hiding parallel to the power of exposure, hinting to the danger, vulnerability and beauty of life itself. His works appear skeletal, barely holding themselves together, with wire armatures that suggest bodies or housing, textile elements that sag, stretch, or tether themselves to surrounding space. Nothing is fixed and everything seems in the process of becoming or unravelling. Fragility is not merely a condition, but a language about the delicate real and unreal architectures we construct to hold ourselves together. Educated in a period shaped by post-minimal and conceptual discourse, Hogenhout absorbed a sensitivity to material and process, but turned it inward. The resulting works are neither definitive nor monumental, they ask for a slower and closer looking. Elements in his works are woven, stitched or bound yet resists any sense of comfort typically associated with these ways of working. Threads extend beyond containment, trailing into the room like lines of tension and metal wires bend into anthropomorphic forms that feel intimate, as though caught between object and figure: like estranged artifact left and found. These works were held in a private collection for many years. See less