A Fragile Shelter
to make furniture instead of autonomous creations was existential rather than ideological in Buedts’ case. That doesn’t diminish the political scope and impact of this literal and figurative artistic orientation. The table in question features in quite a lot of draw ings, paintings and sculptures. It always appears to gether with its twilight zone. Beneath the table’s edge, a formless mass of ‘curl weeds’ grows rampant ; in the sculptures, we find the twilight zone in a chaotic col lection of facets scooped out of the wood with a chisel.
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Such works demonstrate a confrontation between form and formlessness, geometry and chaos, line and mass. It is illustrative of an oeuvre in which the various forms of expression present themselves time and again as the provisional end result of an interplay between various – sometimes opposing – forces or processes. These dialectics form the core of Buedts’ artistry. The most important interplay is that between drawing and sculpting, which in itself already assumes quite a few different capacities.
Hommage aan Lehmbruck [Homage to Lehmbruck], 1992 Brons / Bronze, 29 x 19 x 11 cm Collectie / Collection Dhr. / Mr. Marcel Naudts