Bente Hansen, born 1943. Wave-shaped vase of stoneware with olive green, gray and blue glaze. Decorated with insects.
Bente Hansen, born 1943. Wave-shaped vase of stoneware with olive green, gray and blue glaze. Decorated with insects.
Late 1970s
Monogram signature: BH.
Height 12 cm. Diameter 12 cm.
In perfect condition.
Bente Hansen is richly represented at Danish and foreign museums and collections. Bente Hansen has worked almost exclusively with salt-stained stoneware. Robust cylinder shapes, jugs and reliefs were replaced in the 1970s by sculptural vases with wavy, nature-inspired shapes, among other things. Lidded jugs, often as pairs. Through the 1980s the shapes became more simple and thinner, while the decoration became more important. Jars that are often very high, with tight curves and oval cross sections, rest on a small surface, others are lower with cradle-shaped bottoms. The sharp geometric decorations are made in a characteristic palette consisting of white, yellow, rusty, green, brown and black. The color areas at the same time seem to emphasize the shape of the works and to eliminate it, while the salt glasses give a slightly nubly, orange peel-like surface that unites shape and decoration. Most recently, she has worked with a form of angled incision on the sides inspired by the Greenlandic woman's work knife, the ulon, and some shoulder-shaped jars where the color may be simplified to the monochrome.
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