Art Formes would like to invite you to the opening of Hennie Meyer’s solo exhibition next week: 400g. This body of work has been many years in the making, the culmination of a career-long obsession with form and experimentation. Untitled and without the promise of function, this series is a city of things to do with one’s hands. In new-skin glazes, each earthenware form is exactly 400g. This is the defining parameter – beyond it, the scope extends anywhere. Each 400g object could be two thousand raindrops, a mother’s right lung, or the brain of a newborn. In the palm of Meyer’s hand, the weight of the average human hand. This body of work emerges as a meditation on the limits of things, and the limits as a frame for invention. The material rule-set of weight, glaze and medium permits an imaginative expansion through the 400g cubic edge. Repeated and repeated, the white cube stretches into the form that rises: a re-dreamed chess set, a specimen of sorts, a curious piece of white liquorice.
