Gallery Funaki’s current exhibition 2 minds 4 hands is an extraordinary visual and sensory treat by two renowned contemporary Dutch artists, one living in Amsterdam (Lucy Sarneel) and the other in Melbourne (Manon van Kouswijk). Both artists regularly show at the gallery where their work is often available to view and wear.
This show is not the fruit of a specific collaboration but rather an opportunity for each artist to shown in parallel with the other, thematic propositions do not seem to play a part but still the art of one is strangely sympathetic to the other. I can only imagine that there is a kind of ‘sisterhood’ of the mind at play which perhaps comes from each artist’s deep understanding of gold and silver smithing practice and the shared academic traditions of The Gerrit Rietveld Academie where they have both learned and taught.
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