{"id":15879,"date":"2019-10-11T22:41:43","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T20:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mauritsvandelaar.nl\/dirk-zoete-zogenaamd-mens\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T17:55:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T15:55:16","slug":"dirk-zoete-zogenaamd-mens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mauritsvandelaar.nl\/en\/dirk-zoete-zogenaamd-mens\/","title":{"rendered":"Dirk Zoete So Called Human"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So Called Human<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Dirk Zoete<\/strong><\/h2>\n

drawings, spatial work<\/h3>\n


\n13 October through 22 December 2019
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\n\t\"\"<\/a>\t<\/figure>\n<\/article>\n\n<\/div>[vc_empty_space height=”30px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]The human figures in the work of Dirk Zoete<\/strong> (1969) often have a theatrical appearance, they wear masks or costumes and are usually on a stage-like space. He does not show man literally but rather an archetype or interpretation of the human form, that which we call a human being and recognize as such. In the spatial work they are composed of wood, plaster, metal, textile and wool, dead materials that bring a body to life. Their clothing consists of fabric, pvc tubes and iron stips, the mask-like faces of cast plaster from which woolen threads hang like hair, mustache and beard. They are distant cousins \u200b\u200bof the suprematistic figures of Kazimir Malevich or Oskar Schlemmer’s ballet dancers.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]At the same time, Dirk Zoete connects with much older traditions of rituals, parades and the carnivalesque in which people adorn themselves with costumes and masks to defy reality.
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