Dancing Stone Sculpture by Gerard Kuijpers

Dancing stone 2 sculpture by Gerard Kuijpers Dimensions: Variable dimensions. Materials: Carrara Marble, steel. In this digital age you might feel a creeping desire to return to the more physical and tangible things. The work ‘Dancing Stones’ from Gerard Kuijpers is the result of extensive purification. The steel and stone reach their ultimate essences. The steel being as strong as never before; the stone radiates its heaviness. This piece of art shows how the stone, even in complete rest, never loses the potential of movement.While turning the stone the spectator feels the heaviness and lightness at the same time. Even a gentle breeze will be able to move the stone. For thirty five years Gerard Kuijpers, autodidact, has been researching the essential qualities of steel, stone glass and wood. In this way he meets the core of his materials, where after he uses the power of their interaction. Glass becomes even more transparent, steel even stronger; while wood obtains more warmth, stone becomes eternal. Moreover, even more fundamental opposites arise: resistance versus movement, severity versus organic, and usability versus poetry. So, in searching the boundaries of the materials, he creates objects that radiate simplicity and become timeless.