Helmut Smits is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in The Netherlands. Nature and plant life is a recurring theme in many of his sculpture and commissioned pieces.
Year: 2002
Materials: fruit crate boxes, fruit, wood, stands, halogen work lights, grass carpet
Dimensions:
L 450 cm W 350 cm H 170 cm
photo: Madeleine Heijmans
Year: 2001
Concrete foundations of a football field in the already present rectangular lower level of the field.
(not executed).
Title: Het Bossche Broekje
(a small cake for two)
Year: 2007
Het Bossche Broek is a nature reserve near the city centre of ‘s-Hertogenbosch.
The layers of icing, cake and filling represent the layers of soil underneath Het Bossche Broek. Dig your way through centuries of sediments and soil formation while you eat.
Blown-up plant labels in nature reserve Het Bossche Broek.
To emphasize the richness of flora and also to question what ‘nature’ in the Netherlands actually implies.
photos: Lotte Stekelenburg
