Baartman Hendrik Arie's Online Portfolio

Hendrik Arie Baartman As an artist of constructive geometric forms, my work deals with patterns and relationships derived from classical ideals of balance and symmetry. Mathematical yet organic, these abstract forms invite the viewer to partake of the geometric aesthetic. I use a variety of media, computer art, and paper, wood, plastic and metal. Classical forms are pushed in new directions, so viewers can take pleasure in their spiritual beauty yet recognize how they are updated for our complex high-tech times. I share with many artists the idea that a pure form is a worthy object, and select for each piece the materials that best carry that form. Because my works invite contemplation, slowly revealing their content, some viewers see them as meditation objects. A lively dancing energy moves within each piece and flows out to the viewer. The integral wholeness of each self-contained picture presents a crystalline purity, a conundrum of complexity, and a stark simplicity. Exhibitions 2000 - 2004 2000 Collection Museum of Zwolle Netherlands. Galeria D�rte Zero Barcelona Spain. Exhibition �Art for Art� Barcelona Spain. Exhibition �Contrasts� Amsterdam Netherlands. 2001 Museum of Computer Art New York U.S.A. Exhibition �New Works� Kampen Netherlands. Gallery van Koert&Koert Elsloo Netherlands. Exhibition Midland Art Center Zwolle Netherlands. 2002 Exhibition wacmac. from Holland Moscow Art Fair Moscow Russia. Exhibition �Metamorphosis�WorldArtCenter Netherlands. Internet Exhibition Art Gallery Hamburg Germany Gallery Mossworld Cadiz Spain 2003 Gallery Mosta Rojas Buenos Aires Argentina. (First Prize Winner Digital Art 2003) Exhibition �Secret Postcards� Philadelphia U.S.A. Bkk Exhibition Berlin, Germany. Insight Gallery Norwich, England. Fourth International Digital art Expo Havanna Cuba. 2th BKK Exhibition, Berlin, Germany. 5th International exhibition, �the four elements�, Ferrara, Italy. 6th Internet Exhibition Wacmac Netherlands. 4th International Biennale, Florence, Italy. 2004 World exhibition Wacmac Digital Art. Zwolle. Netherlands. Batik Art Group, �Dali�s 100 Year Celebration�, Barcelona, Spain. Art Gallery Tedopres, Tilburg, Netherlands. Art Gallery Trevisan, Ferrara, Italy.