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CAREL VISSER - aluminium wall sculptures
at FRIEZE MASTERS 2018

“There are many affinities between the work of Carel Visser and that of British sculptors of his generation but his work has been rarely seen here and is little known.”

So wrote Nicholas Serota in his preface of the exhbition of Dutch avantgarde sculptor Carel Visser, as a director at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1978.

The ZERO movement in Holland, called NUL, started in 1960 with artists like Schoonhoven, Henderikse and Peeters. The Dutch NUL-group paved the way for an even more strict minimalism in the mid sixties and …