Eelke Van Willegen

Born in Schiedam, 1974, NL
Lives and works in Brielle, NL
Studied sculpture at The Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam (1994-1998)

Eelke Van Willegen: the art of “surfing” the material
by Beatrice Chassepot

The Sculptor from the Netherlands likes to parallel his passion for Surfing the Oceans with his approach to Sculpt.

(…) surfing is also about reaching an inner tranquility. Reading the wave. Knowing the water (…)

Van Willegen “reads” his piece of stainless steel like he “reads” the waves. He doesn’t force the pieces together, He “listens” to their form, their volume, their negative space, and they come together as they were meant to be together.

(…) Cutting, grinding, welding and casting became the new motion. Reading the form, knowing the material. The journey, a union of body, raw material, energy and mass. Working with the raw material instead of using it… excerpt from Eelke Van Willegen’s statement

Then, once assembled, he adds that touch of color, shiny and soft to force the retina to consider not only the outside of the lines, but also the inside of the sculpture.