Lex Hogenhout, Spatial Weave / Shelter X, 1970s, Mixed Media Sculpture

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Lex Hogenhout Large Artwork 'Spatial Weave' The Netherlands 1970s. A large and impressive 'living' artwork by Dutch artist Lex Hogenhout. … Read more Lex Hogenhout Large Artwork 'Spatial Weave' The Netherlands 1970s. A large and impressive 'living' artwork by Dutch artist Lex Hogenhout. Suspended and leaning, this work almost works like a breathing and living entity placed and hung against a wall. Constructed from a framework of wood, handwoven textiles, rattan rods, rope and carefully tied knots, the work occupies the space between wall and floor, neither fully supported nor entirely suspended. Its composition remains intentionally open: the installation can be arranged in different ways, allowing each presentation to reveal a new balance of tension, weight and rhythm. A loupe accompanies the installation, inviting close examination of the different weaves and details. Held in a private collection for more than four decades, the work holds itself between textile, sculpture and installation. It reflects an artistic practice in which traditional weaving techniques are expanded into spatial constructions that invite viewers not only to look, but to slow down, come closer, and discover the richness concealed within seemingly modest materials. Please note: the dimensions can be different with every arrangement choosen. 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