Maarten Stuer's often monumental stoneware sculptures are inspired

inspired by the impeccable geometry of life and the movement of the

of the world. His blocks, lightened by holes and meshes, or subtly balanced

in subtle balances, evoke some celestial body, wave or shell

each time sliding towards greater abstraction and poetry.

Born in 1965 in Yokohama, Japan, the Flemish sculptor has made his home

for 25 years in the Gers, where he explores the limits of material between

between the eternal and the ephemeral, in an almost mystical search

the presence and absence of matter.

Photos: Anthony Girardi