Bert van Loo

Bert van Loo

Bert van Loo - 1998
Born Hubertus Josephus Antoinette van Loo
(1946-03-11)11 March 1946
Gulpen, Netherlands
Nationality Dutch
Education Gerrit Rietveld Academy
Known for Sculpture and Glass art
Notable work Senza Parole (1998) Amsterdam - Osdorp Kroonluchter (2009) Provinciehuis Noord Holland – Haarlem
Website http://www.bertvanloo.nl/

Bert van Loo (Gulpen,[1] 1946) is a Dutch sculptor, who mainly works with glass. He is mainly active in the Netherlands and China.

Biography

Bert van Loo acquired his sculptors education from 1969 – 1973 at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. Van Loo works mainly with the material glass, mostly in combination with the materials bronze, lead, stone en wood. Van Loo was a teacher en guest teacher at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, Royal College of Art, Londen, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, USA, and many other art academies in Europe, USA, Japan, Australia and China. From 1975 until now (2014) Bert van Loo was also advisor and curator, for many organisations like the Council for Culture in The Hague, the Mondriaan Fund in Amsterdam, the Government of Amsterdam, Amstelveen and also for the Levant Art Gallery [2] in Shanghai, China.

He realized works in the public space in the Netherlands and also in China. Bert van Loo had solo exhibitions as well with fellow artists in the Netherlands and most European countries, as well as America, Australia, Japan and China.[3]

He won different awards and in 2006 he received a retrospective: in Museum Fundación Centro Del Vidrio, La Granja [4] – Segovia, Spain. His work is in the collection of different museum's, private collections and corporate collections.

Art works Bert van Loo

  1. ^ Image and Art Archive - Art in the Public Space - Government Leidschendam. Archived July 14, 2014, at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ^ 'Grain of Sand' ('Zandkorrel') publicly known as 'the Egg' - Government of Noord-Oost Polder, the Netherlands.
  3. ^ Amsterdam: Artwork 1993 Mauritskade 61, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (search for: Loo, Bert van - 1993)
  4. ^ 'Senza Parole’ - Amsterdam, Osdorpplein (search for: Osdorplein)
  5. ^ Short film (in Chinese) with Bert van Loo - International Horticultural Exposition 2011 Xi'an China. Archived July 14, 2014, at the Wayback Machine.
  6. ^ Leda en de Zwaan, Gemeente Haarlemmermeer, 1999.
  7. ^ Short film of Claire Taylor about the chandelier in the Province House of Noord Holland – Haarlem. on YouTube
  8. ^ Continuous 2012 Exposition in honor of the bilateral relations between the Netherlands and China. Rolling Snowball/3-Guangzhou 10 Nov. - 3 Dec. 2012. Now part of the collection of: Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai – China.

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