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    Simon Heijdens


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    Biography


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    Selected works

    Shade
    Shade V&A Museum
    Lightweeds
    Lightweeds UMNH
    Lightweeds Royal Visit UK
    Lightweeds Royal Visit US
    Silent Room
    Phare No. 1-9
    Tree
    Branches
    Boijmans van Beuningen
    3 Rising Slowly
    Marble Chair
    Broken White
    Reed



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    Exhibitions


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    Press / Reviews


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    Contact


    Studio Simon Heijdens
    74 Canrobert Street
    London E2 6PX
    United Kingdom
    studio@simonheijdens.com

    instagram @simonheijdens
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    Marble Chair


    "To sculpt means to take away, not to add, because the sculpture already exists inside of the marble. The only thing the sculptor has to do is liberate the figure imprisoned in the marble." (Michelangelo)

    Marble as a material of objects who's shape is not pre-defined by a mould or design, but by the decision of the sculptor to call it finished. An existing marble chair, found in Cukurcuma in Istanbul, on which the carving is continued to give the chair a new life, undressed from its ornament.


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    2008

    Commissioned by Haaz Gallery Istanbul for the Block exhibition, of which the brief was to work with turkish marble.


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