Kuad Gallery presents a selection of the works of 1925 Maastricht (The Netherlands) born artist Gerad Caris entiled“Pentagonism”.
After his education in Technical School Maastricht Caris’ life until 1970’s was divided into working as petrol engineer in Far and Middle East, including Turkey and as a student of art and philosophy in USA (1957-1967). He graduated from the Monterey Peninsula College, California, the Monterey Institute of Foreign Studies and San JoséCollege(arts and humanities) and later from the University of California, Berkeley a. o. with David Hockney, Ronald Kitay, Elmer Bischoff and Richard Diebenkorn. He has B. A. in Philosophy and "Masters degree in art" from the University of California, Berkeley.
Since 1970 he lives and works as full time artist in Maastricht, creating a remarkable corpus of work from a single form, Pentagon. He is producing sculptures, reliefs, paintings, drawings, graphic editions using the limitles possibilities of pentagon geometry and its spatial form of dodechachedron.
Since 1968 his work has been presented in prestigious museums and institutions such as Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht; Parsons School of Design, New York NY; Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Utrecht; Stadtmuseum Ratingen; Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen; Kunsthalle, Bremen; Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and in numeorus European art galleries in solo and group shows.

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Curator Beral Madra -