Briels
is a visual artist, designer, antipodist and a man gifted with
more than one artistic string to his bow. His bright, vibrant,
colorful canvases carry an essence of two-dimensional abstract
and pop art. In the tradition of the Cobra artists, the
shapes of people and things form a fantasy world. Electric imagery
flows from the South American jungle to the paradises of the
Pacific Rim.
Briels constantly opts for new challenges, which result in an unrestrained,
fascinating and colorful world. Besides his large canvases, he has created
chairs for Leolux, glass vases, ties, scarves, clocks, furniture design, and
ceramics for major corporate sponsor including IBM, KLM and Bank ABN-AMBRO. He
also designed fabric for a special edition Ford car, the Ka, which sold out
immediately.
After years in the world of advertising design, Clemens Briels, Dutch Pop artist,
abandoned his former creative life as design director, in search of new challenges
of expression. He began creating work with a refreshing lack of respect for
the academic straightjacket of perspective. Briels transforms the ordinary
into a creative vision of original symbolism’s. He consciously opts for
new challenges in which he exchanges academic law regarding perspective and
surface division for his own vision - antipodism - a fourth dimension in which
every existence has a direct and opposite existence. It is this vision that
is translated onto the canvas in rich interpretations other than what we expect
to see, a fascinating and colorful world where the artist conceptualizes his
experiences into naturally spontaneous, beautiful images of unending possibilities.
Olympic
Release
Chosen by the Olympic Committee to be Official Artist of The 2002 Slat Lake
City winter Olympics. |
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