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# 101

The 28 parts make a dance while the paint is hardening.
Staff # 101 stands (built up) during the Passages 2024 exhibition in the front yard of Institute Johanna de Lestonnac. Dobbelmannweg 5 Nijmegen. Saturday, April 13 and Sunday, April 14. From 11am to 5pm

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Staff # 103 is on display during the Passages 2024 exhibition. Institute Johanna de Lestonnac Dobbelmannweg 5 Nijmegen April 13 and 14 2024 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m Entrance fee €5,- On presentation of a valid id free for people called Johanna.

#103

Staff #103, ready to travel in a suitcase.

Frank Bezemer with staff #103 during the opening of the exhibition Through the Trees the Woods. Free to André Cadere who would have turned 90 this year. From left to right Hans Eijkelboom, gallery owner Ron Mandos (seen from the back), participating artist Andy Holden, unknown person. 23 March 2024, KrollerMullerMuseum The Netherlands
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Carry Hate

………..    Carry Hate

In front of you and harmony behind.

Be deaf to music and to beauty blind.

Win war. Rise bloody, maybe not too late

For having first to civilize a space

Wherein to play your violin with grace.
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Lines from the poem
‘First Fight. Then Fiddle’
by Gwendolyn Brooks,1949

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Carry Hate (Staff # 71)  125cm. < # 70  #>74

 

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Into the Wild

A sculpture by Frank Bezemer consists of separate parts that are connected to form a staff, antenna or a scepter. The antenna is ideal for receiving signals from the cosmos. The staff is the perfect tool to directly connect with mother earth.

Ans Verdijk goes into the wild with staf # 94 (The wood for this staff was felled by beavers. Then delivered by rivers to the artist’s studio.)
Staff # 94 158cm private collection
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‘Woeste Grond’

Exhibition Woeste Grond at Art Space Alarm Oeffeltseweg 21 Beugen The Netherlands every Saturday 13.00-17.00 till sept 4 2021. Also open at Sunday August 29


Filmmaker Nina de Vroome  at the exhibition Woeste Grond. The two staffs, on the left (#93) and on the right (#94), were felled by beavers and then transported by rivers to the artist studio.  Each staff is the perfect tool to receive signals from the cosmos or to get into connection with Mother Earth. 

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I.M. Enrico Castellani

24 – 27 giugno 2022 Bar San Rocco, Piazza S. Rocco 12 Celleno (VT)

 The picture shows a box decorated with a staff.  It is the container of the staff entitled: I.M. Enrico Castellani (and numbered #81).  

     The painted container and the sculpture  are my tributes to Enrico Castellani’s works of art; his formalist poems in silver and white. Most of all I like his paper stack. Spartito, 1969/2004.  
(Read more of Enrico Castellani in The Guardian)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
It is also a tribute to Celleno where he lived until his death in December 2017. Celleno where I like to work in wintertime.  Celleno reminds me of the village I grew up in. All people connected. Connectivity and reunion are my subjects in my art practice. 

     In the village I grew up in, there lived a painter at the time. His studio was located between kindergarten and home.  At a friend’s house during primary school, I saw one of his gloomy but yet intriguing paintings of a swamp. Before I left the village to go to high-school, I tried to get up the nerve to interview him in his studio. 
He answered my questions while he was working on a painting. At one point he pushed his brush in purple paint – I was afraid he was distracted or irritated because of my questions and would soon spoil the painting with this ugly purple. The opposite happened, the painting gained more meaning instead! It was an eye-opening event!   
     In Celleno I hoped for an equally inspiring meeting, but in fact I was a  month too late; when I arrived in January 2018 Enrico Castellani had just passed away, aged 87.  
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 Some months later I made these ‘poems’ in black, white and gold dedicated to the artist Enrico Castellani and his direct environment.   
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Staff # 81 I.M. Enrico Castellani
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Mother & Child

On view in Museum van Alle Tijden, Oeffeltseweg 21, 5835 BB Beugen

July 4 2021 – September 5 2021. 24/7

Inspired by the medieval polychromatic wooden sculptures of mother and child, Frank Bezemer explores contemporary relationships between mother and child. ( Anneke with staf # 97, also known as maatstaf II, and Taeke with staf #14 )