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Maarten Vrolijk, Blooming Terra Lamp, MVC23007, NL, 2023

Creator: Maarten Vrolijk
Offered by: Todd Merrill Studio

Description
Amsterdam-based artist and designer Maarten Vrolijk believes that art should make people’s everyday lives more beautiful through the many little details that evoke the unexpected. While strongly influenced by the natural world, Vrolijk is not on a quest to expose an imitation of the “real” world, but rather, is on an exploration of the simple, unequivocal, and often overlooked aspects: color, form, delicacy, strength, transparency, ephemerality, that provide a map to the fascinations we gravitate to when experiencing the world around us.

His bombastic ceramic vessels and ceramic lamps have a distinct aliveness as a result of Vrolijk’s mastery of impulse and intuition. Heavily scored and expressively painted, each has a particular personality that is, at once, playful and defiant.

Vrolijk’s greatest success, however, is the organic nature that he maintains throughout each work. Each form has an eccentricity achievable only by the hand of the artist. The jewel-toned fragments appearing like colorful melting ice on his glass vessels, and the otherworldly plant-like protrusions seemingly attaching themselves to or growing out of the ceramic vases, give way to an energetic rapture.

Vrolijk’s works have been collected and exhibited in several renowned international museums including the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Groninger Museum. Todd Merrill Studio is pleased to be the exclusive representative for Vrolijk’s work in the Americas.

Ceramic, Acrylic Paint, Jute
33.46h x 17.72w in
85h x 45w cm

More Information

Documentation:	Signed
Period:	New
Materials:	Ceramic, Acrylic Paint, Jute
Condition:	New.
Creation Date:	2023
Styles / Movements:	Modern, Contemporary, Collectible Design
Incollect Reference #:	783121

Dimensions

W.	17.72 in;	H.	33.46 in;
W.	45.01 cm;	H.	84.99 cm;

Message from Seller:

Todd Merrill Studio, located at 80 Lafayette St., New York City, NY 10013, represents an international group of artists specializing in unique, groundbreaking works of collectible design that blend contemporary art, fine craft, and innovation. For inquiries, please contact us at 212.673.0531 or email info@toddmerrillstudio.com.