The Heringa/Van Kalsbeek porcelain creations, making their debut here in the UK as part of the Vegas Gallery’s Ad Infinitum show, initially seem like examples of sculpture gone mad. Their forms are intriguing but not immediately accessible, and soon I was to discover that just like their makers, everything was not as it seemed.

Speaking to Dutch artists Liet Heringa and Maarten van Kalsbeek at the gallery, I quickly realised that these multicoloured, complex forms are carefully and thoughtfully constructed. They represent the couple’s wide-ranging ideas on sculpture, aesthetic beauty and balance whilst addressing the difficult issues regarding visions of reality. ‘The structures are originally thought of as wind sculptures, as if they would catch something that is blown in the wind’ explains Van Kalsbeek. He refers to the structure which in this sculpture, splays out from the centre with tentacle like arms and jagged plains of multi coloured shapes.

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