Clementine van Maaren

Niches and recesses

The Museum of All Times in Beugen is decorated from September to November 9 with work by visual artist Clementine van Maaren.

She was inspired by the shape and appearance of the structure on the Oeffeltseweg. Many of her objects are created after visits to archaeological sites. She is particularly interested in maps and traces of roads and (living) spaces. For example, behind the glass of the high entrance to the Museum of All Times you can see an image of a via cava: a road carved out by Etruscans thousands of years ago. Niches, cave houses and necropoli are the starting points of the exhibited work. She has often visited excavations in the Mediterranean, but the Roman catacombs in the caves of Valkenburg, recreated more than a hundred years ago, were also the reason for work that Clementine van Maaren is showing in the Museum of All Times. The materials and techniques used are diverse: synthetic resins, ceramics, wood, metal and photo foil.

Clementine van Maaren graduated from the Royal Academy of Art and Design in 's-Hertogenbosch (1983) and lives and works in Leiden. She exhibits regularly and is a member of Arti et Amicitiae in Amsterdam.