Herself

Liesbeth Bos is visual artist and economist. She was born and raised in Harbel (Liberia). After starting out on a course in garden and landscape architecture at Wageningen University she changed to economics, in which she graduated.

She graduated at the Royal Academy of art in The Hague in 2006.

Besides this she is alternately working in financial, organisational and personal management at the government.

Human dimensions are important in her work. Working ‘together’ is always essential.

Language

Liesbeth Bos produces fragmentary installations which reveal structures and current questions on society in a continuous search for balance.

Her motivation is to find a balance between the fragmentary and impulsive world on the one hand and moments of reflection and beauty on the other. The more you look for extremes, the greater the danger of losing your balance; but at the same time you feel more intensely that you exist, that you can do what you do with heart and soul.
Key words are: minimal means, unravelling and reconstructing, monochrome, elementary shapes, colour and intuition.

Colour and Shape

Her search for balance starts by deducing a realistic two-dimensional image to it’s most elementary colour and shape. Eventually large monochrome fields are left. Colour is shape and shape is colour.

Used like this, shape is a way of doing justice to a single, independent colour. Shape creates a third dimension. However, this is a different sort of three-dimensionality than in a sculpture. The most important element is not the shape in the space, but the space the colour demands. In this way, the colour field defines the boundary between two and three-dimensionality.

Fragments

Starting point is always a fragment. Astonishment on a daily event is always the point of departure of her artistic process. A single fragment is analysed enlarged and dissected.

It consists of several layers. There is a dominant shape and colour. There are areas of light and shade. Also the context in which the fragment is found gets it’s meaning. Besides it’s formal dimension the context is added.

But always the layers are made equal and placed side by side. The process of unravelling and reconstructing starts. New images arise. Every new image automatically evokes another new image.

New Reality

In her artistic process Liesbeth Bos reveals the deeper structures of the original image. Extremes are connected, the plain and the complex, the abstract and the concrete. She works in series. Every fragment that is analysed results in a series of images. In such a series, a question is asked about the balance between the fragmentary and impulsive on one hand, and reflection and beauty on the other.

Seen at a glance, variations on a theme, but each successive works penetrates deeper into the essence of the question, automatically leads to the next question and tries to answer it. A whole is created, a new reality, in which the concrete and the poetic meet each other in a balance of their own.