Brabants Dagblad, AD, Eindhovens Dagblad, BN De Stem, De Gelderlander 11-07-2024 & 04-08-2024
Visions of wood in the lush arts forest
The fourteenth edition of the Lustwarande is a beautiful calling card…. It is clear that Lustwarande is flourishing more than ever…. The elaboration (of the concept 'Arbos' (ed.)) is sublime. The ten wooden creations blend seamlessly into the lush forest. Some artists achieve true feats...
The exhibition 'Arbos' invites you to discover. Until October 6, trees and wood, nature and people form a magical alliance.
Let's Talk About Art 14-07-2024
Lustwarande returns with an authentic, stimulating and aesthetically pleasing show, titled Arbos, Latin for trees…….. The reason for choosing this theme has everything to do with current trends, developments and philosopies. Lustwarande detects this new trend and leads the way in exploring the use of wood in sculpture……….Arbos explores this new and renewed attention through tentalizing sculptures. The result is surprisingly varied, pleasing and topical for this time…… Thematically a very strong edition indeed………….Lastly, I want to adrress how pleasing Arbos is, not just aesthetically. The material radiates a certain warmth, a cosiness, familiarity, accessibility and evokes many personal feelings. I truly found a renewed appreciation of wood myself, that I didn’t foresee coming.
NRC 09-08-2024
Slowly the three wooden penises merge with the rest of the forest....... In Lustwarande the forest shows the wooden sculptures to their full glory..
Financieel Dagblad 23-08-2024
Long live the tree!
It gives an extra dimension to see the wooden sculptures in a ‘wooden’ environment, in their natural habitat. It is definitely a different experience than viewing such sculptures in the sterile halls of a museum or gallery… It seems like a fairy tale… Your imagination runs wild.
de Volkskrant 26-08-2024
During the sculpture exhibition Lustwarande, art and nature merge, this year especially because the theme is 'arbos'......Each work bears witness to an unmistakable pleasure in making and also has a layered meaning. Such as the two large link chains by the German artist Gesine Grundmann. While the exhibition guide talks about the 'flexibility' of a chain versus the 'steadfastness' of the tree trunk, two Surinamese visitors immediately exclaim: 'Keti Koti!' Then a dog walker passes by. The dog sniffs the sculpture, lifts its paw for a moment and then jumps over it with ease, following its nose. Art and forest have indeed become one.