Theo Mackaay - Gouden kalf - Sold

Since the first edition of the Netherlands Film Festival in 1981, the Golden Calf, the Grand Prize of Dutch Film, has been awarded annually to the best Dutch filmmakers, screenwriters, producers and actors. The winners of the Golden Calves 2021 were announced on Friday 1 October.
Theo Mackaay was born in Utrecht in 1950. After the stonemason training in Utrecht, he studied from 1971 to 1976 at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and from 1976 to 1978 at the State Academy of Art in Amsterdam. Mackaay is based on recognizable shapes: women, men and animals. But all with some sort of reference to its archetype. Archetypal motifs such as warriors, women, horses, archers, couples in love, created with their own signature. The result is always surprising and convincing Mackaay. As an example of this form of expression, you will undoubtedly know the Golden Calf, the grand prize of the Netherlands Film Festival, which was designed by Mackaay in 1980 at the request of Jos Stelling, film director and initiator of the festival. Since then he has of course developed enormously, but the basic characteristics have remained? The Golden Calf, the grand prize of the Netherlands Film Festival, was designed in 1980 by the Utrecht visual artist Theo Mackaay on behalf of Jos Stelling, film director and initiator of the festival. . Since 1981, this prize has been awarded annually during the festival to Dutch filmmakers, screenwriters, producers, actors and actresses. The statue is 33 cm high and cast in bronze. Sculptor with a soul Theo Mackaay has passed the age of 60 and those who know him a little better know that he has already lived three lives. He has filled his life up to now with an energy that cannot be extinguished. High peaks and deep valleys seem to be an inextricable part of the artist's life. But an artist is also entitled to some degree of peace in his life, especially when he gets older. It seems that Mackaay has found his peace. It has been a battle between two hemispheres of the brain, between the wild artist beast and the now calm, contemplative sculptor. The last one won! Not only did Mackaay change human beings, his work also changed. Large, sturdy expressionist bronze and natural stone sculptures in which the woman and the animal are his favorite subjects, changed into moving, sensitive bronze sculptures. The influence of great masters from the past was visible in Mackaay's earlier work, such as Marino Marini and Ossip Zadkine. Now it seems that the artist has been able to let go of the influences from the past. That he has now, in this phase of his life, found his own formal language, after all the peaks, valleys and wanderings. The wanderings that took him via France, Italy and China to Malaga in Spain, his current residence. All sculptures are cast in a limited edition. Three copies are cast of large statues, six of medium and eight of the smallest. After casting, the molds are destroyed, so the buyer has the absolute guarantee of a certain edition