Anco van der Haar (NL) – plastic ‘Motor’ / Engine

Anco van der Haar (NL) – a spectacular ceramic plastic, entitled ‘Motor’/’engine ‘, handbuilt, stoneware, glazed in light salmon, with line decorations on bulges and around pipe pieces. In Anco’s work we often see peculiar, sloping structures, covered with a pattern of lines that a continuous movement suggests. This piece is crafted in the Studio of Gert de Rijk. Anco van der Haar as graphic artist and painter also made several paintings of this ‘engine’ in two versions (see image). This piece is depicted in the book Vier & Vuur (1998) about the Utrecht artists ‘ collective Z4 (Mushrooms four) with Anco van der Haar, Henk van der Haar, Gerard van Rooy and Gert de Rijk. These pictures by Anco van der Haar.