JAN DRIES

Jan Dries perfectly geometric creations invite meditative contemplation. The choice of white marble, immaculate and perfectly polished, contributesto this impression of absolute serenity which gives these sculptures acharacter so to speak sacred. The artist explains: “My work is anabstract datum, because what really is involved in life can not be takenwithout more in nature in the form of an available form that would thensuffice. install on a base. Of course, it can be beautiful but thewell-being of a thing, far from being reduced to its beauty, touches theabsolute of what is animated. In other words, it is what beauty conveysas spiritual content, this constitutive essence of form and spirit.Dries manages to reach the perilous balance that combines emotion andreason. For if the work is the product of a long mental process, itnever departs from the existential questions that animate it. On thecontrary, they are embodied in the density of matter. Each sculpture is areflection of a deep interrogation on the place of man in the cosmos.Some works are made of several fragments whose concave and convex formsmarry and attract each other. They are the union of born beings to meeteach other. Their perfection conditions their exposure which will befavored in a minimalist environment where the natural light will be ableto emphasize the sensuality of the curves and to play the mystery ofits shades. Although born of the understanding, they surpass it to jointhe sphere of the unspeakable.