Theo Mackaay - Gemengde techniek: Dieren en de zon - 2000 (prachtige lijst met museum glas) - Sold

Mixed media by Theo Mackaay. Animals and the sun. Year: 2000. Dimensions including frame: H52 x W60cm. Dimensions of the presentation: H22.5 x W31cm. The work is signed by the artist at the bottom left. Framed in a beautiful frame with museum glass! The authenticity of the work offered is fully guaranteed. A certificate of authenticity can be emailed upon request.

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Mackaay grew up in Utrecht. In 1970 he started training as a stonemason and laid the foundation for further development as a sculptor. He studied from 1972 to 1976 at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and from 1977 to 1979 at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam.

Sculptor and painter

Since 1980 he has been working as an independent artist, both as a sculptor and as a painter. Mackaay's style can be described as deformingly figurative, inspired by Pablo Picasso, Marino Marini and Ossip Zadkine, among others. In 1980 he designed the Golden Calf, the trophy that is awarded during the Netherlands Film Festival. The trophy awarded by the BV Popprijs is also a design by Mackaay from 1984. Other prizes designed by him are the incentive prize for companies for employing the chronically ill (1996) and a prize for the Xena foundation. (2002).

In 2005 he traveled to China, where he would work for 2.5 years, resulting in several large bronze sculptures.

Mackaay exhibits at home and abroad and had various solo exhibitions in, among others, Morren Galleries in Amsterdam and Utrecht, the Carlton Hotel in Cannes (2015) and the Amstel Hotel in Amsterdam (2016).

Musician

In addition to being a visual artist, Mackaay is also a musician. In the 1970s he was a guitarist and singer in the backing group of Lenny Kuhr. Since the late 1970s he has been part of the socially critical Dutch-speaking group Braak,[1] as a singer, guitarist and composer,[1] with which he made four LPs: Demo's , Suite for a Hypochondriac , Heldenkermis and Ik know wat je lust . He played as a singer and guitarist in studio sessions and was featured in commercials. In 2016 his album With the sky you never know .