Sjoerd Buisman - mixed media on paper | 'Spirals with celery' | 1983 (UNIQUE WORK)

Very beautiful unique work by Sjoerd Buisman. Template print with pencil on paper.

Buisman uses a print of the stems of a celery (Apium graveolens) to put an interesting composition on paper, completely in line with his admirable oeuvre and fascination with nature. All prints of the stems were then numbered by him in pencil.

Titled bottom center by the artist in pencil. Equipped with a studio stamp on the back and signed in pen below.
Made for and from the collection of Liesbeth Brandt Corstius (Dutch art historian and museum director), then director of the Gemeentemuseum Arnhem.

The whole is in very good condition.


Buisman follows the phenomena of nature in his work. In his early days he mainly used materials from nature itself, such as potatoes, plants and trees. He studied botanical growths during his travels around the world and made countless photographs and drawings to record these processes. He was actively involved in Land art. By directing the living materials in all kinds of directions, his works of art literally grew.


In the early 1970s he created Plastic Events in Nature, a series of multimedia works in which he recorded the growth process of plants with photo series and text.


Buisman has been making his Phyllotaxis images since the early 1980s. Phyllotaxis is the study of leaf positions, looking at how leaves are grouped around a stem or branch. Buisman used the spiraling leaf position of, for example, a palm and celery. He made these statues in wood, bronze, steel and concrete. In 1999 he created the work Phyllotaxis Irrsee for the land art project Mondsee Land Art in Mondsee.


In 2003, Buisman was awarded the A. Roland Holst Medal for his entire oeuvre. (source Wikipedia)