Page 38 - Enamel & More

Art is not anymore confined to Museums, Palaces and Churches.

Compared to Jan Commandeur the work of Maria van Elk on the wall of the auditorium in
Amersfoort*, is unassuming and introverted. The wall is divided in separate panels that each are
worked on in a different way. On a blue wall small copper circulars are applied and on another
wall a mesh of curved lines is scraped with a compass. On a larger plastered wall wooden forms
are pressed of which some are recognisable as parts of numbers. In the hallway Van Elk made an
autonomous art work with a theme that connects with the wall in the auditorium.
In the enamel forms, that seemingly hang arbitrarily on top of each other on the wall, (parts of)
geometrical forms, such as circle, triangle, trapezoid or hexagon can be detected.

* ‘t Hooghe Landt College (Secondary school), Amersfoort

Din Pieters
Publication in magazine Kunst en Bedrijf (Art and Business), 1993

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