Doos horend bij een bronzen penning 1950 - 1990

Here's a square box that belonged to a bronze medal by Jaap Gutterswijk. It's a small object; I wonder what its significance was, and how it came into being? Imagine Gutterswijk finding this box, perhaps in a dusty old shop, its dark surface worn smooth with age, maybe the kind of place where discarded things find new life. It must have been a labor of love, carefully chosen to protect the bronze medal, a symbol of the artist's achievement or memory. Was it chosen for its simplicity? Looking at its geometric shape, the box evokes a sense of solidity and containment, and I think of Donald Judd. The medal is absent now, but the box, like an empty vessel, holds the echo of the artist's intention and creative spirit. It reminds me that even the most mundane objects can become vessels of meaning through the artist's touch.