source: furnitureandinteriordesignatadamsmithblogspot

Bob Verschueren is a self taught artist who works with natural materials, but has an inquisitive mind that takes him on journeys probably even the artist wouldn’t expect.

“My installations do not contain any messages. They are far more evocations of my questionings about the contradictory relationships between life and death, creation and destruction, about the man’s place in nature and relations between the ethical and aesthetic” Bob Verschueren.
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source: digitalconsciousness

Born in Brussels on 23rd October 1945, Bob VERSCHUEREN is a self-taught artist. With great humour, love and respect, he has become a « sculptor of the ephemeral » and a dream builder. Since 1978, Bob VERSCHUEREN has been working in and with Nature.

After playing with the wind and the elements in vast natural sites (the Windpaintings 1978-1985), the artist began further concentrating on his plant installations (since 1985) and on Nature as a material ; twigs, branches, leaves, pine needles, moss, sand, seaweed or even citrus fruit or potato peelings… when it comes down to it, ordinary materials.

By practising a sort of « amnesia culture », during his walks, the artist rediscovers the plants as though he had never seen them before. After collecting them, he carefully observes them, as it is their shape, structure and texture that guide his hand and spontaneously impose on the work according to the chosen location.
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source: outhere-music

The sculptor Bob Verschueren, besides his work of vegetable sculpture that puts him at the forefront of the news (with several important exhibitions in Belgium and in Europe as well as a monograph by publisher Mardaga), has developed over the last fifteen years an interesting concept to mix the vegetal and musical worlds in an innovative way. Each piece on this record concerns one vegetable species from which the composer/interpreter derives range of untreated sounds that he arranges into compositions. They have been realized with the support of the Banff Centre (Canada) and of the Centre de Recherche et de Formation Musicale de Wallonie.
The technique consists of a series of “microscopic” sound recordings next to the object that allows the artist to take out unexpected sounds while manipulating various vegetables. The organisation of these records gives birth to real soundboards, in which the listener is invited to dive at will…