Description
Theo Niermeijer (1940-2005)was a sculptor, painter, graphic artist, installation artist and architect. He was also a contemporary mystic. He followed courses in Amsterdam, Antwerp and Warsaw. Metal was Niermeijer’s material: copper and zinc for making etchings, (sheet) iron and stainless steel for making sculptures. He also used metal in his paintings (Ferro printing) and reliefs. Both at his shipyard in Amsterdam and in a northern French village, he assembled scrap iron into statues with symbolic and meditative charges. The effect of time on the material – rust – was a necessary means of expression for him. The effect of rainwater on metal and paper is reflected in his characteristic ‘rust drawings’. He traveled to the Far East, where he became influenced by Chinese and Buddhist philosophy. He incorporated what he saw and experienced on his travels into his art. His great example, the American-Japanese-Dutch artist Shinkichi Tajiri, also often used iron and aluminum. But even more so was the substantive influence, wisdom that signified the path to enlightenment.
This ‘ferroprint’, the impact of rusting iron on paper, was made in Japan 1983, in very good condition, 120×90, signed and dated 1983/
