By Ida Jacobs The casual serenity of the statues. Fantasy gently ironic works of Sophie Nyns, the quiet joy of his characters while grace and poetry tell us that happiness, relieved of the burden under which we often derisory conditioning them, consists of simple things. This way of paying tribute to life, this exquisite politeness that art lucid dreaming when joined humor are not surprising when you know the author.
Born in Brussels in 1926, Sophie Nyns is the only daughter of an open pair on the cultural world. His artistic vocation is manifested very early, and his fate was confirmed when she is studying pottery and ceramics at La Cambre, where she became a student of pioneering ceramic sculpture in Belgium, and Pierre-Caille as workshops at the Academy of Boitsfort. During this training period, she met artists that mark the Belgian landscape painting, drawing, architecture and sculpture. The women she sculpts today in bronze, these characters who wear their gaze away, haughty nude breasts senior whose body belies the detached expression of the face, and sometimes become mischievous angels by the grace of a small pair of wings, are striking proof, if any were needed. They receive securities Eric Satie would have disowned for his scores, which temper in a fun and modesty as the unveiling of the feelings induced in the curves.
" Beautiful Day", " love, it really fatigue", "no, no ", " dancer dancing ", "serene and yet Waiting "tell the very serious subject of seduction in spicy little joke, the ladies did not hesitate to adopt a cap or a shawl as supporting the eternal feminine flounce.
If the" angel musician "smiled the temperate gaiety, is crowned by peace he meets the bronzes of pigeons to clean linens and elegant." Pigeon in the industry "," quiet little pigeon, "" happy little pigeon, "and" Tuft "express many odes to nature through the serene representation of one of its smaller species.
The artist considers another chapter of his talent by "Centaur gay" and "centaur a little shy." The spirit of these works looks surreal with "horse and lady," a sculpture designed, it is the word, as the indispensable premise for the birth of a centaur. This small bronze composed of two elements that overlap causes various reactions among the public. Some, in tune with the artist, his humor refreshing welcome, others are offended. Sophie Nyns, smile at the corner, having fun.
For several years, his exhibitions are devoted to the lost-wax bronzes, a technique that it has learned well. When asked why she left the sculpture ceramics, it begs the answer, but launches a terse "because it broke." Words uttered with the most serious. Sophie Nyns do not deliver, his work and his career speak for her.
Since 1949, numerous solo exhibitions in Brussels and elsewhere in Belgium make the public know its ceramics. They are followed by all exhibitions, both national - with Val Cambre "museums of Ixelles and Louvain-le-Neuve, galleries Dewever of Carnières, Ago - international, Berlin, Bogota, Barcelona Lozt, Cape Town, Paris, Marseille and exhibitions organized by the State Middelheim Antwerp museums in Ghent, Hasselt, Mons and Verviers and the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. learn more about Sophie Nyns: reviews Colette Bertot
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