Borrowing from the Past, Pushing toward the Future
by D. Dominick Lombardi
Living and working in Belgium, sculptor Hanneke Beaumont's powerful works seem to be about pensiveness. Her subjects appear to be individual portraits of sometimes perplexed, other times resolute and sedate persons. And, even in their most anxious moments, her subjects appear calmed; not by something positive or good, but by coming to terms with some sort of insurmountable limitation-an effect that is amplified by the material's color and physicality. |
