Joris Verdonkschot

Thebian Trojan Kouros Bronze Sculpture Torso Male Nude Figure Classic

circa 2020

For years Joris August Verdonkschot decicated himself to filming. He studied Law and Cultural Science and wrote a lot of filmscripts. Later in life he developed the skills to sculpt. This is his greatest passion, next to other interests, like model photography, writing and creating choreographies. He has been dedicated to sculpting for the last 25 years. *Verdonkschot has a vision:* I think a sculpture should have its own vitality. Not only the image of natural life power, movement, and physical action, but a clenched energy, an intense own life, that is seperated from the image. When a work posesses this sort of energy, I don’t call it just beauty. Beauty, like the late Greek Art or the Renaissance, is not my goal. The power of expression is. Beauty caresses the eye, expression strives for mental vitality, more intense and touching a deeper level than the senses. Because there is more to a sculpture than to simulate natural appearances, it doesn’t mean escaping life, but reaching reality . I try to follow my passion from a state of innocence and to discover a new site of myself. Efforts to express a meaning to life, a quest to experience more intense. GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED) Several exhibitions in België, Engeland. In Germany and in Denmark there are museums who show his work constant.