Jeanne opgenhaffen biography
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Jeanne Opgenhaffen (BE, 1938) is a contemporary ceramic artist, born in 1938, living and working in Belgium.
Jeanne Opgenhaffen’s unique genius captures even the grandest, most powerful universal forces of evolving nature and presents them undiminished to the viewer on a small scale.
Her inspired use of intricate, organic repetition, confined within the rectangle provides us with a precise yet utterly comprehensive definition of natural forces, the landscapes they shape and indeed even the creatures that crawl, swim or fly there.
The artist assembles hundreds—sometimes thousands—of delicately and individually shaped pieces of porcelain into a whole.
When I first saw Jeanne Opgenhaffen's work I immediately though she had to be about my age.
Each is related its neighbor, but sings with a different voice, a different resonance. Opgenhaffen combines them into rhythmic compositions that speak to us about the nature of space, movement, growth and change. Indeed, she shows us the evolution of the universe on the micro scale, sometimes in white, other times in subtle shades of c