Grab your calendars because starting February 25, Museum Flehite in Amersfoort will be transformed into the seductive and compelling creative world of Philip Haas. The American artist enjoys international fame as a filmmaker and visual artist and his exhibition is now on display in the Netherlands for the first time: a small first....
Philip Haas lives and works on the Italian island of Procida in the Gulf of Naples. He attended Harvard University and taught at Princeton University. In 1991, Haas received a Guggenheim Fellowship. His film Angels & Insects was nominated for a Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival and an Academy Award in 1997. At the Venice Film Festival, The Butcher's Shop was awarded the Premio Open, a prize for new works that bridge film and art.
With the exhibition Sculpture Breathes Life, the museum in Amersfoort is showing a wide selection of sculptures, reliefs, film installations, photographic works, a performance video and a monumental painting. Philip Haas' work reflects a sensual and poetic dialogue with art history. Haas describes his creative process as sculpting by thinking, creating his own and contemporary visual vocabulary. He creates sculptures primarily from marble, bronze, synthetic resin, plaster and wood. Among his best-known works are the acclaimed monumental sculptures Four Seasons (2010), inspired by paintings by Giuseppe Arcimboldo. Four smaller versions of these are on view. In addition, the ceiling video installation Apollo & the Continents (2009), based on Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's 18th-century frescoes, and the film installation The Butcher's Shop (2008) after a painting by Annibale Carracci. The sculptures on display are mostly homages to famous artists such as Luis Buñuel, René Magritte and Vincent van Gogh.
Sculpture Breathes Life is on view from Feb. 25 to June 25, 2023, at Museum Flehite in Amersfoort, Netherlands.
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