Diet Wiegman Shadow Art
Basically his sculptures look like modern art then you shine a light on them and the shadow that s thrown on the wall behind the sculpture might look like michelangelo s david or the venus de milo.
Diet wiegman shadow art. Diet wiegman light sculptures shadow sculptures diet wiegman born 24 january 1944 schiedam is a dutch multidisciplinary visual artist from the netherlands. This upbringing lead him to study at the rotterdam academy of art from 1961 to 1965 and to become a dedicated artist himself. Diet wiegman 1944 is an internationally established visual artist. Shadow art diet wiegman dutch visual artist diet wiegman takes the phrase one man s trash is another man s gold to a whole new level with his astounding shadow sculptures.
Diet wiegman graduated from the willem de kooning academie in rotterdam in 1965. Wiegman s father and grandfather were artists as well. Shadow art made from trash shows diet wiegman at his best photos video for today s serving of delicious and unexpected artworks we bring you shadow sculptures made of trash courtesy of dutch artist diet wiegman. We are very proud that diet wiegman is selected as one of the 15 artists from 11 countries to be part of the beyond the shadows exhibition at the chimei museum in tainan taiwan.
The way that artist diet wiegman was able to arrange the materials in this one to create the poison symbol appears a mystery self aware. Here is a selection of his most impressive work courtesy of the diet wiegman archive. Diet wiegman born 24 january 1944 in schiedam is a dutch multidisciplinary visual artist from the netherlands. The painting is titled shadow out of shadow.
Diet wiegman is a dutch artist who creates ingenious shadow and light sculptures from trash. Feb 13 2015 approach a sculpture by artist diet wiegman and you might be left scratching your head at this random assembly of trash and objects but shine a light on this same pile of detritus and suddenly a perfectly formed shadow appears. An exhibition of 40 shadow art installations. Wiegman is an accomplished artist in almost every respect but it s these shadow sculptures that have.
Wiegman reflects his vision of looking at seemingly average objects in a totally unique way. Beyond the shadows runs through june 2 2020 more information.