Lo van der Linden - Iron object

This artwork was made by Lo van der Linden. He was particularly charmed by this work because his older brother, Smid in Beesel, also made this kind of images in his spare time.

Marie François Louis Joseph (Lo) van der Linden, born on September 26, 1937 in Klimmen, currently living in Puth.

Lo van der Linden assembles his iron objects from the craftsman's discarded tools and the scrap metal of industry. His sculptures display a fascinating duality: they seem familiar and yet strange to us at the same time. We recognize components such as gears, ball bearings, hoes, the blades of a sawing machine, tools that bear the traces of use and thus make the craftsman's efforts visible, his weathered hands and tanned skin, his connection with the earth, with matter. On the other hand, when we look at the objects as a whole, images from times that we are less able to place accurately come to mind.

His sculptures sometimes seem to come from a prehistoric world: mythical creatures, chariots, utensils and objects of worship, archaeological finds whose purpose we no longer know, but whose magical power we nevertheless still experience. Lo depicts for us those creatures from outside time, but also shows how beautiful a saw blade is, a bearing, a hoe and a wheel, discarded as utensils, but as a form, taken in hand by an artist, timelessly beautiful and captivating. (source: Beeldend Brunssum).