Kim Kroes

Kim Kroes (1960) sees women as “the center of the universe.” He only makes torsos of women, which he experiences as the most beautiful part of the body. In addition, he also believes that emphasizing a specific body part is more fascinating than highlighting the entire figure. Kroes likes to make something that is “part anatomy, part form.” His work is a dance of abstraction and organic forms, an interplay that arouses passion and eroticism. According to Kroes, this is a way to portray tension.

At first glance, Kim Kroes' talent comes from his father's side; his father was a well-known and leading painter from The Hague. The paintings he made in his last period were largely erotic in nature. In particular, his exhibition in The Hague on the occasion of his fiftieth birthday in 1968 made it into all the national newspapers. A number of his drawings were confiscated by law enforcement because they were considered offensive to decency.

Kim Kroes still paints, draws and restores, but his heart lies in sculpting. That must be his mother's influence. She made beautiful clay sculptures of refugees, and many of those sculptures were cast in bronze. Most sculptors usually work from a self-made sketch or drawing. This is also the case with Kim Kroes. Nowadays his passion lies in tors in marble and bronze.